Aftermath: Coming of Age on Three Continents

"I spent the first three years of my life unaware of the disaster that had befallen my family." Annette Libeskind Berkovits writes: "I was shaped by the aftermath of the Holocaust...I adapted...grew a protective shield for self-preservation, then put on a smile and moved forward to meet the world on my own terms."

She was born in exile among the red poppy-strewn foothills of the Himalayan Mountains and raised in Soviet Kyrgyzstan. Annette and her parents returned via cattle train to Poland ...