Hanna Doron

Stories for My Children Hanna Doron

Hanna Doron is the child of Hungarian-Jewish Holocaust survivors. Many of the family's close relatives perished in Auschwitz. This memoir is about her childhood in Romania, growing up under an oppressive Communist regime. When the family emigrated to Israel in 1958, they had to adjust to new circumstances, a new language, and culture. Her parents eventually moved to the United States, and she joined them but they had to leave her brother behind in Israel to serve in the Israel Defense Forces. He was killed during the War of Attrition in 1968. Later, in New York, she met her husband, whose background was similar to hers. The book is written as an account for the family in the form of short stories that are both poignant and humorous. The memoir describes to the reader the effect of the Holocaust on her family, as seen through the eyes of a young child, and later as an adult, and the hardships the family went through to settle into a new life which involved emigration to Israel and then to the USA.