The Miracle of Shoah is a true story. It begins with the Blitzkrieg of Poland in 1939, when 32 relatives of Hayia Mitmacher, a Polish Jew, were captured and sent to concentration camps. 

Hayia is hidden by friends. Her name and identity are changed before she is sold into servitude in Germany as a housemaid. Her strong work ethic leads to her to a job in the household of the admiral heading up the German Navy. It is also a coming of age story, detailing 12-year-old Hayia’s relationship with the admiral’s wife, as Hayia matures into an adult. 

Today Hayia is over 80 years old and is grateful for surviving the Shoah, defined as the mass murder of European Jews by Nazis during World War II. 

In this inspiring remembrance to those who lived and died in the war, author Hank Silver brings to life the everyday struggles in Berlin, at a time when fear and betrayal meant life or death. The author was a six-year-old child when the United States entered World War II. His uncle died in fighting on the European front, leading Silver to a life-long interest in the war. 

Silver says it is Hayia’s story of survival and freedom that inspired him to write the book. “I have known the woman this book is about for 40 years or so and she revealed these details to me. I thought it was a wonderful story, so I began to write about her early life consumed by terror for the duration of the war.”

 

About the Author

Born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Hank Silver now lives in Dallas, Texas. He retired from the business he owned in 2001. Now that his children are grown, he and his wife, Annette, love to travel and have seen most of the world and all 50 states.