A Life Inherited

"A spellbinding story of triumph over tragedy that is somehow unique to her position as the child of Holocaust survivors, and universal to anyone who has had to claw their way back from despair and heartbreak..." Nancy Krulik, New York Times Best-Selling Author "Captivating, moving, brilliant and like nothing you've ever read before. Lipiner Katz writes her soul in this must read book that will surely be cherished by so many." Hen Mazzig, "The Algemeiner's" Top 100 People Positively Influencing Jewish Life, 2021 Can inherited trauma determine the path of the next generation?

Rena Lipiner Katz grew up in the shadow of the Holocaust believing that the price of her parents' survival and her own birth was a life of sorrow and guilt. Lipiner Katz explores how her parents' childhood trauma affected her emotionally and physiologically. Determined to forge a life separate from the legacy of the Holocaust, Lipiner Katz had to first understand how her parents' experiences during the war impacted her world view, her relationships, and the myriad of choices she made as a child, wife, mother, and wife again. Through her journey as a Second-Generation Holocaust Survivor she ultimately found a life that is free of inherited pain and full of meaning and love.

From her struggles to unravel and leave behind the trauma of the past, Rena's story reveals universal truths that will resound in the reader's mind long after.