'George Sternfield's book reveals a personal journey through a turbulent life, drawing on personal recollections, conversations with family members and friends and research. It tells of an infant escaping the Holocaust, a childhood spent in Siberia; adolescence in post-War Communist Poland, and maturity gained in Australia. It is a story is about escape, survival and migration to a new life in a faraway country with a different culture and language. The author states that he remains "convinced that the greatest challenge we face is to remain human in the face of tremendous odds'. (Publisher's blurb)
