Memoir Overview

This memoir traces Lore Wallburg McCarthys early years as the daughter of a famous Jewish movie star in Germany. As Hitler comes to power, she is mistreated and her father is eventually killed in Auschwitz.

After surviving the war, she and her sister emigrate to begin a new life in America. The story follows her exciting life as a single woman in New York, then marriage to her beloved Daniel and the birth of her four children.

When her husband dies at 48, she raises the children on her own and again pursues new horizons in the face of hardship.