When the Nazis invaded Czechoslovakia in March 1939, the Buchsbaum family chose different paths to escape Nazi brutality.
Intelligence was not enough to survive the SS; bad decisions could prove fatal.
Their stories live in Heart Songs - A Holocaust Memoir, and form the legacy of love and loss inherited by the author, a second-generation Holocaust survivor.
Grandmother Clara Buchsbaum fled to Italy in 1939 and found refuge in the mountain village of San Donato Val di Comino.
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Amsterdam Publishers Heart songs: a holocaust memoir, paperback/barbara gilford
