Goodreads asked Ella Burakowski:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Ella Burakowski When I was 14, my mother died in front of me of a massive heart attack. When she died, she took with her every story, every experience of how she survived the Holocaust. She took with her the reason she used to scream in the night, the reason I was different than the other kids. There was so much I didn’t know.

It wasn’t until I became an adult that I was interested in the story of how she survived, but it was too late to hear it from her. My Uncle David Gold, my mother’s brother, is still alive today at the age of 85. I felt compelled to write my family’s story while he was still able to describe the events my family endured during one of the most horrific periods in human history.

Writing Hidden Gold has allowed me to reconnect with my mother and walk in her footsteps through the darkest time in her life.

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