Finding the Light Within: My Journey of Healing after the Holocaust

By Mary Friedmann Berges

During World War II millions of Jews were sent to concentration camps and killed during the Holocaust, the German policy to eradicate all European Jews. Thousands of Jewish children survived this carnage, however, because they were hidden by their parents with friends, relatives, and in Catholic orphanages. Many of these children survived and started a new life. What happened to these children and what were their lives like? This is the story of Mary Friedmann Berges, one such child for whom love was to remain last felt the day her mother left her at a Belgium Catholic orphanage in 1943. Surviving the war after losing her parents to the atrocities of the Holocaust, haunted by anxiety and sadness she did not understand, she persevered through childhood to adulthood to find a place where she belonged. Her discovery of that place is a story of how we can surmount tragedy, will ourselves to change and find fulfillment at any age.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1090532156
• ISBN13: 9781090532152
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.4" x 6.0"