A Novel by Kim Kupperman, Inspired by a True Story of World War II, Shows Us Triumph Over Tragedy

By: Robert Diamond Oct. 03, 2018

NEW YORK, Oct. 3, 2018 /PRNewswire/ Meet Suzanna, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl from western Poland who escaped the Nazi tyranny with her seventeen-year-old brother and their mother, only to be deported to a Soviet forced-labor camp. The family's unexpected odyssey covered six thousand miles, from western Poland to Persia via Central Asia. Arriving in Tehran as refugees with no home, no money, no belongingsand with their family dispersed across the worldSuzanna and her mother found generosity and hope.

Thanks to a new foundation launched by Suzanna's family, the story is now told by award-winning writer Kim Dana Kupperman in her new historical novel, Six Thousand Miles to Home: A Novel Inspired by a True Story of World War II (Legacy Edition Books; Oct. 15, 2018).

Published by Legacy Edition Books, a project of The Suzanna Cohen Legacy Foundation (www.suzannacohenlegacyfoundation.org), proceeds from sales of the book shall support the organization's timely missionto collect, preserve, publish, and teach the life stories of men and women who marshaled exemplary resilience in the face of forced displacement and to honor the bravery and generosity of those who provided compassion and assistance to refugees, exiles, and persecuted peoples.

"The tragedy of her life was caused by her identity," says one of Suzanna's grandsons, "but it was her identity that proved to be her salvation."

Inspired by the real-life story of a Jewish family from western Poland, this book recounts an amazing saga in which hope and resilience persist in the face of uncertainty, deportation, and cruelty wrought by the Germans and Soviets in the territory that historian Timothy Snyder has named "The Bloodlands.""I have tried to render real people, most of them lost now, by imagining them in particular historical and social landscapes," says Kupperman (www.kimdanakupperman.com), a critically acclaimed writer and founding editor of Welcome Table Press.

"Specifically, I have focused on how the women and men in this story might have thought about and responded to the urgencies that unfolded in real time during their lives. The full impact of the Shoah cannot be fully known because so many people's stories have been lost. Many of them will never be told, but some are still available, waiting to be inscribed. It has been a singular blessing to be involved in recording this one."

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