Inge Auerbacher’s childhood was as happy and peaceful as that of any other German child—until 1942. By then, the Nazis were in power, and because Inge’s family was Jewish, she and her parents with sent to a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. The Auerbachers defied death for three years, and were finally freed in 1945. In her own words, Inge Auerbacher tells her family’s harrowing story—and how they carried with them ever after the strength and courage of will that allowed them to survive. “A moving story . . . [The author’s] perspective, while chilling, pierces the heart with memorable imagery.” —Publishers Weekly

I Am a Star: Child of the Holocaust

Children's Books

Auerbacher, Inge

Biographies

Viking Books for Young Readers

As part of his doctoral research, Albert Schatz, a twenty-three-year-old graduate student at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, diligently worked alone in a basement laboratory to find an antibiotic to treat tuberculosis. In October of 1943, Schatz discovered streptomycin. But his professor, Selman Waksman, took the credit, relegating Schatz to the footnotes of history. Over fifty years later, German-born Inge Auerbacher read an article that named Schatz as co-discoverer of the drug. As a young Jewish girl during World War II, Auerbacher was a prisoner at Terezin concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. She was diagnosed with tuberculosis during her imprisonment and was able to receive the life-saving streptomycin after her immigration to America. Auerbacher contacted Schatz in 1997, compelled to offer him gratitude for the scientific research that saved her life. She learned of the controversy surrounding the discovery of streptomycin and Schatz's ultimate recognition for his work. As a result of their friendship, they decided to co-author this book. Finding Dr. Schatz is their powerful true story-told in their own words-of a scientist who changed the world and a woman who lived because of it.

FINDING DR. SCHATZ: The Discovery of Streptomycin and A Life it Saved

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

iUniverse

The author's reminiscences about her childhood in Germany, years of which were spent in a Nazi concentration camp

Demco Media

I Am A Star: Child Of The Holocaust (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Turtleback Books

*Ellis Island Medal of Honor Award Winner. * 
*NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY 1996 CHOICE, BOOKS FOR THE TEENAGE READER* 
Kansas State Reading Circle Choice, 1996/97 * 
This is the story of a young Jewish girl who survived a concentration camp and came to the United States after the war to live the life that many like Anne Frank never survived to experience. 
Inges second book, Beyond The Yellow Star To America, carries the reader into Inges world of an immigrant in 1945 America at once dealing with her own psychological and physiological growing up and the real, external world of being an outsider to American culture. With vibrantly clear images, Inge tells her story through a series of sequential vignettes reinforced by many photographs from her collection. 
The pre-teen, teenage and adult reader will immediately understand her problems dealing with group acceptance, self-esteem, and peer pressure; however, her relentless drive to succeed and wonderfully close relationship with her parents will take an understanding of her special scars from having been totally degraded when a child of The Holocaust. 
Following a brief historical background, we arrive with Inge in New York Harbor in 1946, aboard the Marine Perch, an American troop transport ship, and travel with her through her lifes turning points against the 1940s, 50s and 60s settings of New Yorks East Side, Brooklyn, and Queens. We revisit Europe with her. The hot and cold factions of her Americanized relatives; the resolve of her parents to achieve in the American economic mainstream in spite of the physical odds against them during their first steps to independence; and Inges private on-going physical nightmare fills the reader with pride in the positive qualities of the human spirit and its determination to survive. 
But, Inges American years are not just survival years as is often the story of Holocaust victims. Her resulting personal, psychological fuel from the past drives her dynamism and ideals of today for the betterment of Mankind. She is an activist for humankind. She is both an esteemed chemist/medical researcher and an accomplished motivational public speaker for brotherhood through education and communication, against bigotry and other manipulative tactics that divide humanity into isolated groups. She resides in New York.

Beyond the Yellow Star to America

Royal Fireworks Pr

Running Against the Wind : A biographical novel about Mary and Martha DeSaussure  1945, Brooklyn, New York, Bedford-Stuyvesant.  Post WWII euphoria, nostalgia, the PAL, and interracial relations as they really were, as told by the pioneering Black track stars.  This is their warm story of their religious home life (Papa was a minister), their "mixed" neighborhood, their athletic triumphs and heartbreaking defeats.  This a story of the realities of post-WWII racial prejudices; the pride of the girls' immediate neighborhood, and the vulnerability they learned to feel when they ventured outside of it.  Mary and Martha's immediate neighbors and shop-owner friends, fixtures in their growing up years, were a wonderful mix of Black, Jewish, Irish and Italian people.  The twins relate personal, sharing stories about each, and because they were kids, it is striking how many of their remembrances have to do with food or candy.  (The girls insisted that their story contain an appendix of the recipes that have become a part of their lives!)  The twins story is also the story of the Police Athletic League and how the sisters, Black sisters, helped to reshape it.  The PAL gave them the psychological boost to achieve, to believe.  It opened very real doors.  And it changed forever for women because of them.  The PAL story picks up from the first race that Mary won at the 13th Regiment Armory Regional Track Meet (but received the silver medal because she was Black, and the white German favorite had to get the gold).  It includes the successes of "firsts" the twins shared in the first Black PAL girls track team in Bedford-Stuyvesant and the first integrated PAL AAU Women's track team in New York City.  Their scrapbooks are filled with photos and medals.  And the panorama shows the white canvas of female athletes and spectators that first greeted them.  Today, Mary and Martha are leaders in their own interest areas.  Both rose in the ranks of the Women's Auxiliary of the National Baptist Convention; VARANA, the Volta Region Association of North America; and the Women's Africa Committee of the African American Institute.  Mary retired last year from the Elmhurst Hospital Center as Administrative Executive Secretary to the Director.  Martha pursued politics and became the first Black Administrative Secretary in the New York Supreme Court and then the first Black Legal Administrative Secretary to work in the Appellate Division.  She has been a team with Justice William C. Thompson for over 30 years.  When she graduated from John Jay College of Criminal Justice earning a Bachelor of Science degree, she did it with an award for excellence in academic achievement.  Both of the women have firecracker personalities that light up any room they are in.

Running Against The Wind

Royal Fireworks Publishing Company

From Nazism (Behind the Yellow Star) to America

History

World

Royal Firewoks Press

Ich bin ein Stern

Beltz

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