One Stitch at a Time (The Weaving Together of My Family's World War II Stories of Exile, Death, and Survival)

This book reconstructs the wartime trajectory of the author’s father, who, as a seven-year-old Jewish child, fled Czechoslovakia for Paris, Toulouse, and ultimately Switzerland, where he survived the war. Drawing on letters, family documents, and photographs, it combines personal narrative with research in Swiss, French, and Czech archives. Accessible to a broad readership, it is also well suited for courses on the Holocaust and twentieth-century European history. By foregrounding the process of archival recovery, the book highlights the challenges of reconstructing individual lives from fragmentary sources, while offering a nuanced perspective on memory, displacement, and the long-term impact of war.