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Carrying My Father's Torch: From Holocaust Trauma to Transformation
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About Carrying My Father's Torch: From Holocaust Trauma
Product Description Finding your place in a family tree that has only one branch, the other shorn by the Holocaust, is a tricky business. Gail Weiss Gaspar grew up believing that her worth was tied to busyness and productivity, with achievement and education prized above all other accomplishments. Keenly aware that her beloved father survived Auschwitz and the brutal environment of the Mauthausen labor camp, she silenced her suffering because nothing could match what he endured. Gail’s family had secrets, as all families do. It became her job to be the family’s secret keeper. It wasn’t until her 63-year-old father stood on stage at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and told his story that Gail understood that her voice mattered, too. This moving memoir honors the past while unshackling from it and highlights a generational journey through loss with tenderness and love. If you have ever said to yourself, "How could I possibly break free from my family’s past?” this book is for you. When you read Carrying my Father’s Torch, you will be inspired to consider how your family legacy has impacted your life, find the courage to overcome your legacy wound and become the hero of your own story. Review "Taking on the complex and the taboo, Gail Gaspar unravels her life with uncommon directness, clarity, and simplicity. A gifted writer with something very important to say." -- Amy Kaslow, Writer and photographer, Presidential appointee to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum "Unpacking the earned wisdom gleaned from her profession as a coach and from her childhood experiences, Gail Gaspar offers stories and direction for how to overcome inherited trauma.This book will give you the courage to explore your own life's experiences and the legacies you have inherited, and let these guide you." -- Hiro Boga, Award-winning author, Business strategist, Mentor "A beautiful tapestry that gives touching testimony to a daughter's adult journey with her father. Gail movingly describes her childhood recollections of growing up in a house of silences and how she lovingly reconnected to her father as he began to speak publicly about his survival." -- Bjorn Krondorfer, Director of The Martin-Springer Institute and Professor of Religious Studies, Northern Arizona University "Gail's story is at once deeply personal and ultimately universal. Her generational insights into love, loss, loyalty--and lots to celebrate--had me turning each page, eager to learn more about the author's story, and myself. A must read!" -- Deborah Grayson Riegel, Keynote speaker and Leadership consultant "Gail Gaspar does a beautiful job of weaving family history with personal discovery, in a way that will move anyone wanting to understand how to show up more clearly and powerfully in their own life." -- Pamela Slim, author, Body of Work and Escape from Cubicle Nation "Tender, charming, powerful, Carrying my Father's Torch is an exquisite offering to any and all nursing their own legacy wound. We all know of the shadows of our own perception. But what of the shadows cast upon us...even as those shadows may be golden? We become what we know, to be certain. But we can also become the sovereign hero(in)es of our own lives. This glorious read shows us how." -- Tanya Geisler, Leadership Coach "For many families, and for certain generations, revealing secrets is fraught with risk. Thankfully, more and more people are learning that it's only in revealing that true healing can take place. Luckily for us, Gail Weiss Gaspar is one of those people. In her memoir, she reveals a noteworthy father-daughter story. Healing intergenerational wounds is one of the greatest gifts an author does for her family, and Carrying My Father's Torch is a compelling and important example of such a gift." -- Karen C.L. Anderson, author of Difficult Mothers, Adult Daughters: A Guide for Separation, Liberation & Inspiration About the Author Gail Weiss Gaspar, MA, ACC, is a cer
