Usurped

About the Book

Usurped is an account by a 15-year-old Jewish Polish girl, of her experience during the 4 years of captivity in Hitler's concentration camps.

Though the historical setting is gruesome and brutal, the tales of her experience run the full gamut of human emotions, from horror to humor, from brutality to kindness and self sacrifice, from acts of evil to devilish pranks.

It is her family's story, both their devastation and survival, through the fall of the Third Reich. It is also the story of the building of her new family upon the ashes of her old family in occupied post-war Germany and the resettlement of her new family in a thriving Jewish community in America.

About the Author

Ida Gelbart is living in the United States with her family, she is a holder of several patents and is very much into inventing. She is currently working on a play.