The House of Margie

About the Book

This book is a tale about a Polish Jew who, after having survived Hitler’s “Wannsee Crusade,” comes to America in search of a new life. A husband and a father of a baby-daughter, Franco, as his Tuscan wife calls him, is faced with an exceptionally hard chore. He must break the wall of his Holocaust nightmares: gas chambers of Treblinka and Auschwitz and dangerous encounters with Gestapo, SS and Schupo, before the precious rug leading to his dreamed of “House of Margie” finally stops unfolding. The pages you are about to read are warp and woof of that tapestry.This book is a tale about a Polish Jew who, after having survived Hitler’s “Wannsee Crusade,” comes to America in search of a new life. A husband and a father of a baby-daughter, Franco, as his Tuscan wife calls him, is faced with an exceptionally hard chore. He must break the wall of his Holocaust nightmares: gas chambers of Treblinka and Auschwitz and dangerous encounters with Gestapo, SS and Schupo, before the precious rug leading to his dreamed of “House of Margie” finally stops unfolding. The pages you are about to read are warp and woof of that tapestry.

About the Author

Frank Stiffel, a former inmate of the Nazi Camps Treblinka and Auschwitz, arrives in the USA with his wife Ione and their three-year-old daughter Aurora, after a four-year Italian interlude in his neo-Darwinian struggle for survival of this least fit of the fittest. With all links to the first 30 years of his life severed, he comes to New York with no money, no marketable skills and hardly any knowledge of English. What’s more, there is no one to extend a helping hand. Is life worth fighting for? Look for an answer to this question in “The House of Margie”.