This is the story of Chęciny, my hometown in southern Poland, and
of the people who lived there between the two world wars of the
20th Century.
The Nazi invasion of Poland in October 1939 started World War
II. Millions of Polish Jews died in the ensuing Holocaust,
including 4,000 citizens of Chęciny, and 50 members of my family. I
was lucky: my mother, brother, three sisters and I had joined my
father in America in 1930. I finished high school in Chicago, went
to college and graduated from the University of Illinois Medical
School. I became a doctor and a psychiatrist, setting up a long and
rewarding private practice in Los Angeles that spanned more than 50
years.
Like the wall paintings in Pompeii, which offer a glimpse into
the daily life of that city before the volcano, I hope that these
stories offer a glimpse into the daily life of my hometown before
the Holocaust.
But most of all, this is the story of my family, and a tribute
to my beloved Aunt Chana and her daughter, my cousin Rachel, whose
courage and self-sacrifice saved Miriam - Chęciny's youngest
survivor of the Holocaust - from the Nazi murderers.
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