A hopeful reminder that peace and reconciliation are always within reach
Sonia Ascher's beautiful memoir is a profound exploration of finding one's voice after years of inherited silence…
The new memoir · 2026
Never
Fitting In
My Journey with Parental Trauma,
Addiction, Healing
A lifetime of searching. A journey toward belonging.
“Painfully honest and courageous.”
Holocaust Heritage · Amsterdam Publishers
Memory. Identity. Healing.
Finding a place in the world.
In 1938, during Kristallnacht, Sonia Ascher's father was seized by the Nazis from his home in Germany and taken to Buchenwald Concentration Camp. This memoir follows her passage from a frightened child to an adult coping with the consequences of generational trauma that left her searching for answers to lifelong unasked questions. How did Sonia's identity as a Jewish child of Holocaust survivors keep her separated from the largely Christian environment in which she was raised in America? And where did she belong?
Discover the storyWhat Readers Are Saying
A book that touched my heart!
As an only child of Holocaust Survivors Sonia writes about her very personal struggles dealing with the impact of her parent's trauma…
Highly recommended!
Never Fitting In is the moving story of the author's life and the impact of being the child of Holocaust survivors has had on it…
Well done, Sonia!
Easy to read ~ Hard to put down! Sonia has a way with words that makes it feel she is telling her story over a cup of coffee…
Behind the words
Meet Sonia
As a child of a Holocaust survivor, Sonia has spent most of her life trying to learn what her parents endured in Germany and figuring out where she belongs.
A memoir author, photographer, and lifelong community volunteer, she makes her home in New Hampshire and spends a few months each year in England.
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Sonia speaks about her family’s Holocaust story and the lasting impact of inherited trauma.