Hand In Hand With Tommy, A Testimony, 1939-1945 / Hilde Hupperts Hand in Hand with Tommy is one of the earliest factual accounts of the Holocaust, written as early as autumn 1945. Huppert describes with piercing objectivity her harrowing experiences as a mother with her little son in prison, in the Rzeszow Ghetto, and in the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen. Hand in Hand with Tommy is a riveting and moving description of suffering, struggle and miraculous salvation. Twenty editions of the book have been published, in German, Czech, Dutch, Hebrew and Arabic. The reader response has been one of universal acclaim.In A Toast for Bertha, Shmuel Thomas Huppert, Hilde Hupperts son, describes his return to his home town in Czechoslovakia, some fifty years after the end of World War II. A Toast for Bertha is a semi-fictional novella that recounts the conflicting emotions of this encounter. Together with his wife, Tommy arrives there shortly after Vaclav Havels Velvet Revolution to find himself a total stranger. His intriguing voyage, told with a mixture of vague memory, vivid imagination and subtle humor, is a severance of the umbilical cord, which once tied him to his childhood, and brings the author closer to his second home, Jerusalem. Shmuel Thomas Huppert's story is both heart-rending and honest, told with sensitive maturity and realism. A Toast for Bertha has been published in Hebrew and German.Fifty years after they survived the Holocaust, mother and son together hand in hand finally approach their English-speaking audience.
