I wasn't alone

By Daniel MEHRSTEIN

Born into a Manouche family marked by war and hardship, Daniel grows up in a world that leaves him little room. As a child, he knows hunger, cold, suspicious looks, and closed doors. Rejected at school, despised in the street. Being Manouche means carrying a wound no one sees, but that is felt in every moment.

Yet over the years and through hardship, hands reach out. A colonel who teaches him to read. A headmaster who trusts him. A friend who becomes his brother in heart. Simple, generous souls who change the course of a life.

This book is the testimony of a man who endured everything - persecution, abandonment, poverty, grief - without ever losing his dignity or his pride. A man who travelled to Auschwitz-Birkenau to see with his own eyes his ancestors' names carved in stone. He came back broken, but standing.

I Was Not Alone is a book about memory, resilience, and the quiet strength of a free people that history has too often tried to erase.

"I am Manouche. And I am proud of it."
MEHRSTEIN Daniel 2026

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HCLKDFBB
• ISBN13: 9798190304442
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"