No one would expect a concentration camp survivor and former Hitler Youth to be on speaking terms, let alone count each other as best friends. Bernat Rosner invited Frederic Tubach to his home for dinner one night in 1983, an invitation which filled German professor Tubach with some anxiety. Instead, a friendship developed, anchored in their shared experiences as immigrants from small European villages and their common appreciation for books and music.

A decade later, they began writing the joint memoir that became An Uncommon Friendship: From Opposite Sides of the Holocaust, a Bay Area best seller published earlier this year. This book was praised by Jonathan Yardley as "a small, yet significant contribution to the massive literature of the Holocaust.... (it) comes as close to being a selfless book as any other of recent vintage."

We are taught to write from our hearts - to open a vein and let the good stuff out. These two men and their "language doctor", Sally Tubach, will tell you how to reach into your soul to find your writing muse, and in the process, perhaps create a healing work for the world.

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University of California Press WEBSITE:
Interviews and Chapter One.

Berkeleyan ARTICLE:

San Francisco Chronicle - Friends in the Bay Area write a timely memoir of pain, healing and redemption

WISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO: "TO THE BEST OF OUR KNOWLEDGE":
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Martin Ebel, Unser Leben hat einen doppelten Boden Frankfurter Allgemeine
Zeitung IV, 24. Dezember 1999, Nr. 300.

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