Separated Together: The Incredible True WWII Story of Soulmates Stranded an Ocean Apart

by Kenneth P Price

Overview

Before World War II, Abe and Sonia Huberman were two soulmates happily married and in love, living a peaceful life with their family in Warsaw, Poland. But while Abe was away, on a short business trip to America, World War II broke out and the Nazis invaded. Abe was stranded far from home, while Sonia was left alone with their two young children to face the Nazis. This is the story of her bravery, of Sonia's survival of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising and Nazi death camps, including the notorious Auschwitz. What was supposed to be a separation of seven weeks turned into one of seven years.

This is the story of their love, of soulmates reunited against all odds. Learn about history through the lens of this inspirational account that serves as a powerful reminder of the resilience of the human spirit.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789493231085
Publisher:	Amsterdam Publishers
Publication date:	12/17/2020
Series:	Holocaust Survivor True Stories
Pages:	318
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.67(d)

About the Author

Dr. Kenneth P. Price grew up in Brookline, Massachusetts. His parents were teachers and inculcated in Dr. Price a lifelong love of learning, reading and writing. After high school, he spent a year studying at the Hebrew University and the Hayyim Greenberg Institute in Jerusalem, Israel. He graduated magna cum laude with honors in psychology from Brandeis University. He earned his Ph.D. in psychology from SUNY at Stony Brook, where he was a Herbert Lehman Fellow. He worked as a psychologist at the Northport VA Hospital and was on the faculty of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School. He has evaluated more than 300 military veterans for psychological injuries incurred during their service and has served as a consulting or expert witness in dozens of legal cases. An avid student of human nature, politics and history, Dr. Price has authored some two dozen scientific articles in psychology and medical journals. Dr. Price lives in Dallas with his wife, where they both enjoy their four grandchildren.

Table of Contents

Advance Praise

Introduction

Prologue

1. Sonia: The Early Years

2. Abe: The Early Years

3. Catastrophe in Kozienice and The Pigeon Story

4. Abe demonstrates his Business Acumen and becomes a CEO

5. The Telefunken Matchmaker

6. Dating

7. Engagement and Marriage

8. Climate Change. The Skies Darken

9. The Separation

Photographs

10. This means War

11. Thugs on a Carriage

12. From the Countryside to the Ghetto Uprising

13. Abe, the accidental Immigrant

14. Majdanek - The Real Catastrophe

15. Auschwitz

16. New York - Poland

17. The Rest of the Story

18. The Reunion

19. A New Life in America. Free at Last

20. The Brain Tumor

21. Life out of the Ashes

22. The Ring

23. Denouement

Afterword

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Editorial Reviews

Dr. Kenneth Price's book Separated Together is not only the story of a miraculous reunion, but this testimony itself has something of the miraculous about it. September 1939: Sonia's husband Abe was stranded in New York, while she and her two children were left in Poland, to be swept up in the horrific whirlwind that was the Holocaust. Somehow Sonia was resurrected from the ashen earth of Auschwitz. Somehow she was able to embrace her husband Abe once more. Somehow the two of them made a new life in America - but without their murdered children. Dr. Price relates this powerful tale with insight and eloquence, in all of its pathos and drama. It is sure to transform you.

Dr. David Patterson, Hillel A. Feinberg Distinguished Chair in Holocaust Studies, Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies, University of Texas at Dallas

Kenneth Price's book, Separated Together, is a great accomplishment in the realm of Holocaust chronicles. It gives a deep insight into the enmity against the Jews as well as their brutal mass murder, their suffering, their humiliation, and their deepest despair. Yet it also reflects their attempts at survival and the survivors' search for a new existence after the war. This is an important book in the world of the Literature of the Holocaust.

Dr. Zsuzsanna Ozsvath, Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies, Leah and Paul Lewis Chair in Holocaust Studies Professor Emeritus, The University of Texas at Dallas, Author of When the Danube Ran Red (2010) and My Journey Home: Life after the Holocaust (2019)

Separated Together is a powerful work about survival and renewal whose narrative spans generations and is sure to inspire new generations in the 21st century who need to learn the bitter and inspiring lessons of the Shoah.

Rabbi Abraham Cooper, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Los Angeles

Ken Price, a creative and scholarly clinical psychologist, has produced an uncommonly thoughtful chronicle of two people's debasement by but ultimate victory over murderous Nazi oppression. It's a true story that reads like a novel. It's inspiring as well as sobering - inspiring because it shows what the human spirit can overcome; sobering because it is a cautionary tale of what the Jews have been subjected to for thousands of years and of what, like other oppressed groups, they are at risk for today and into the future. This beautifully written book is uplifting even as it is frightening. Price has written something notable.

Dr. Gerald C. Davison, Professor of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles

I'm sure this is a labor of love, it shows. This is a compelling personal story whose intimate look at the human costs and triumphs of the transitions of history tells the story of people losing a world and finding a new one. Beyond a story of the Holocaust, it explores the way that people lived and the way that they rebuilt their lives.

Daniel Greenfield, Shillman Fellow at David Horowitz Freedom Center

Just finally finished your book and WOW!!! Terrific work, it knocked me out, told me much I didn't know historically which was the greatest pleasure for me, lots of fascinating historical stuff and such a truly wonderful tribute to Gloria and family.

Very, very impressed and really knocked out by it all. Kind of wiped me out in the best way possible. Congratulations on a wonderful accomplishment, really well done!

Henry Jaglom, writer, film and stage director & producer, author of The Third Stone on the Second Row: A Family Memoir and a Brief History of the Jewish People

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