{"product_id":"larrys-lives-tragedy-trauma-triumph-9781038376947","title":"Larry's Lives: Tragedy, Trauma, Triumph","description":"The death march to Nazi-occupied Ukraine of tens of thousands of Romanian Jews is one of the most horrifying-yet one of the least known-of the Nazi's wartime atrocities. In this gripping memoir, Larry Rotenberg, now in his nineties, recalls in vivid detail his childhood in a loving, deeply religious, Romanian Jewish family and his experience of the brutal winter march into Ukraine and the starvation, disease-and deaths of his parents and brother-that followed. It is a story of cruelty and desperation but also of tenderness, ingenuity, and bravery.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHad Larry only told this story, he would have given a rare gift to the field of Holocaust studies. Instead, Larry offers readers something much greater: a window into what an orphaned, deeply traumatized boy from Czernowitz (now Chernivtsi) was able to forge from the barren hell of a wasteland that few know and even fewer survived. From postwar uncertainty and isolation to life as a young immigrant in a new land, Larry shares his journey through foster care in Canada, haunted by loss and self-doubt yet excelling in every new challenge. His struggle to transform unimaginable hardship into creativity carries him through the ups and downs of medical school, a turbulent stint as Chief of Psychiatry at the US Army Pacific Command during the Vietnam War, a successful campaign to rebuild the dysfunctional psychiatry department at a major Pennsylvania hospital, and finally an acclaimed career in the challenging world of forensic psychiatry. His perseverance after a childhood of traumatic loss unfolds into a rich and meaningful life-one that he now shares with us as the enduring gift of this memoir.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Larry Rotenberg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e FriesenPress\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/09\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 420\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.23lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.93d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781038376947","brand":"FriesenPress","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48949887631497,"sku":"9781038376947","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_a0704d35-5b8f-4060-acc5-92eb10a2de71.jpg?v=1794299082","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/larrys-lives-tragedy-trauma-triumph-9781038376947","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}