Author Description

In 1938 the Roma or European Gypsies were rounded up and interned along with Jews, homosexuals, and other people deemed unfit to live by the Nazis. Most of these people perished, exterminated in gas chambers, worked and starved to death, or just lined up and shot, their bodies buried in enormous pits or burned, the anonymous ashes scattered in the wind.But some people managed to escape …NOT MY BLOOD tells the story of one young Gypsy, his tribe exterminated in the death camps, who was helped to break free by fellow prisoners. Luca, the Gypsy hid in the forests and then with a band of Jews in deep mountain caves. Luca and his new friends had to fight for survival against the elements during frigid northern winters as well as marauding troops of Nazis, and at the same time find food and everything else they would need to survive. He not only endures but learns that in the midst of war, there is kindness; even people who are hungry themselves will often share with those less fortunate. NOT MY BLOOD is a story of compassion and horror, of love and treachery, of sheer grit and the will to survive by not just one man, but by ordinary citizens of Europe. Follow Luca and his companions as, stunned by the horrors of World War II, they make their way across Europe and finally to America.NOT MY BLOOD is the third book in Kafrissen’s Holocaust Series. The first two books, BROTHERS BEYOND BLOOD, and LONG LOST BROTHER were very well received. They follow two Jewish brothers, Hershel and Isaac Rothberg through WWII and its aftermath. Luca, the Gypsy was just one of the people that Rothberg met in Auschwitz Death Camp. This third book is Luca’s story.