Kenneth P. Price Ph.D. - Separated Together: The Incredible True WWII Story of Soulmates Stranded an Ocean Apart (Holocaust Survivor True Stories WWII Book 7)

Dr. Kenneth Prices 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: Sonias 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 peoples debasement by but ultimate victory over murderous Nazi oppression. Its a true story that reads like a novel. Its 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

Im 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; son of Simon Jaglom, Director of trade in Danzig pre-1939

This moving memoir describes the lives of a Jewish couple married before the war but divided during the Nazi occupation of Poland as the husband had found himself in the US at the outbreak of the war. Miraculously, his wife survived and they were reunited in 1946 and made new lives for themselves in the United States. It is a remarkable study of human resilience and should be read by all those interested in the fate of the Jews in the tragic twentieth century.

Dr. Antony Polonsky, Albert Abramson Professor (Emeritus) of Holocaust Studies at Brandeis University, Chief Historian, Museum of Polish Jews in Warsaw

What a great achievement you have accomplished with your magnum opus. Its an admirable and complex work merging history, emotion, social science, and love. You accomplish the tremendous achievement of synthesizing the histories, personalities and characters of Abe and Sonia while presenting the dramatic story of their lives. The prose is clear and the narrative flows. The format is excellent following the parallel lives of Abe and Sonia from childhood, through courtship and marriage, through their wartime separation, their moving reunion, and afterwards as survivors.

There is an erudite interweaving of historical chapters on history of 20th century, Poland in 20th century, rise of Nazism, political events of 1930s, the Final Solution, and politics in the West a great introduction for history students.

You have a nice way of injecting your own voice into the narrative, including touches of humor, bringing the reader closer to the story. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to read your work, at once popular and scholarly, and to revisit the extraordinary lives of Sonia and Abe.

Helen Schary Motro attorney and author of Maneuvering Between the Headlines, 2005; daughter of Zalman Schary, the cousin who persuaded Abe to come to America in August 1939 for a short visit. She divides her time between Tel Aviv and New York.

Thank you very much for sending me a copy of your manuscript. It gives me great pleasure to offer a brief review of your book Separated Together.

I am also a child of immigrants. My father was born near Krakow, Poland. He moved to Vienna in his teens and escaped with my mother from Austria in 1939, managing to reach the U.S.

Your narrative is a story of resilience, first and foremost, of a family that found each other after unspeakable loss and separations who managed to put losses behind them and live a most productive and meaningful life. For other survivors, including my father, the adaptation did not turn out so well, although the next generation my generation has fared much better.