I was born in Košice, Slovakia, in 1937, grew up in England and studied medicine in London. Always as interested in people’s lives as in their ailments I wrote and published short stories about my country practice. After I and my family moved to Chapel Hill, North Carolina where I was a professor of Family Medicine, I began to write the story of what my parents, grandparents and I went through in the great and tragic dislocation of WWll.