Embedded in the images of an old photograph was a family history waiting to be revealed to Ann Helen Wainer. Family Portrait documents Ann's journey of discovery that led her to learn more about the people in the photograph, and ultimately, about herself.
Ann's family, the Kuprewassers, lived in Poland during Hitler's rise to power and cautiously watched the events unfold in Nazi Germany. Like other Jewish families at the time, they faced an uncertain future. On the eve of one of the world's greatest atrocities, the Holocaust, Ann's grandfather gathered his clan for a family portrait, on that would survive its characters - who either perished in Nazi death campts or remain unaccounted for.
Amazingly, the photograph survived, as did the story of the Kuperwassers. In this extraordinary memoir, Ann reconstructs her family's history by means of extensive research, countless interviews with family, friends, and other survivors, as well as from an oral history recorded by an uncle.
In the process, Ann discovers a lifetime of treasures in the stories and information about her family, and Family Portrait guarantees that they will endure for generations to come.
I would like to invite MJH customers to a "Family Portrait" reading at The Sterling, in Aventura, on Thursday, Jan. 21, at 1:00 pm.
ReplyDeleteThere will also be another reading on Febr. 3, at 1:00 pm at Temple Beth Sholom, in Sarasota.