"[Your book is] very well written and fascinating. You've led an incredible life, and are clearly a woman of much character and strength. I particularly liked the way you weaved the history of the Holocaust into your own memoirs, such as when you describe your family's trip to Cuba and concurrently provide an account of the St. Louis. Thanks again for sharing your book with me."

-Excerpt from a letter to Eda Balsam from Martin Goldman,
Director of Survivor Affairs, U.S. Holocaust Museum,
Washington, D.C.