World War II: Liberation of western Czechoslovakia

The following is another excerpt from my upcoming memoir, COWBOY FROM PRAGUE: AN IMMIGRANT’S PURSUIT OF THE AMERICAN DREAM: Like most veterans of World War II, my father seldom spoke of the horrors he had seen. Only occasionally, when feeling nostalgic or wishing to entertain us with an amusing anecdote, he would regale us with…

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Book review: WHEN TIME STOPPED

I have read many “Holocaust books,” and written one myself, and WHEN TIME STOPPED by Ariana Neumann rises to the top tier of the genre. When I read in the publisher’s promotional  material that it was the story of a man named Neumann from Prague, I simply had to read the book. After all, I,…

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