Website of Rosalind Brenner

On my first fleeting visit of Poland, my ancestral home, after walking through the streets of the city of Kalisz, I imagined how different the city must have been in my father’s childhood, with its strong Jewish population thriving before the onslaught of the holocaust.  As I sat in a courtyard in front of the Town Hall square, reflecting on what I’d seen and what I’d not seen, an internal notion sparked the writing of a book. At first, I protested the idea, not wanting to join the already well-established queue of holocaust survivor writers. But the notion held strong. Kalisz, a Journey of Return, is a sweeping family saga spanning three continents and set over two world wars.