What is a living will? Why would anyone need one? What are the advantages of having one? How does a person make one? The answer to these and other questions concerning the struggle of people, especially the elderly, to keep from being overwhelmed by others who would manage their health and property can be found in Writing a Living Will. Written for the educated layperson who is interested and concerned about his/her own health care future and the health care future of loved ones, this book will also be a useful reference to the legal profession in determining legal options in health care issues.

GENERATIONS starts with the author's overview of Polish/Jewish interactions over a thousand years from the times of Ibrahim ibn Yakub, a Jewish traveler-merchant-diplomat from Arab Spain, who in 965 A.D. was the first to mention a town called Kracko and continuing all the way to the Holocaust. It then proceeds from pre-historic legends to historic details about Krakovian Jewish courtiers serving the King Casimir the Great in 1350 and the Polish Renaissance Queens Elizabeth of Bohemia and Bona Sforza around 1500, all at the royal court in Krakw. The major part of the book deals with the history of Krakw Jewry as illuminated by the specific lives and genealogy of the author's Aleksandrowicz forebears and their friends and neighbors. It ends with the author's experiences as a child in Krakw (1925-1943) and his survival in the Ghetto, the concentration camps in Plaszw, Mauthausen, Melk and Ebensee. The book is the result of 11 years of research. It contains a number of copies of original historic family documents written in archaic Polish, which the author transcribed and translated into English, scores of other documents and photographs, a bibliography and an index.