Helenes Versprechen

To save her son, she must part from him. New York, 1947: The pediatrician Helene Bornstein, who emigrated to the USA, sees her son Moritz again after nearly ten years. She had sent him away on a children's transport from Frankfurt back then. Now, Moritz has become a stranger to his mother, but he has never forgotten her promise. Will they be able to reconnect? And can Helene establish herself in New York, even though she cannot forget the children who were entrusted to her during the war? One day, she unexpectedly encounters Leon, her first love. A moving novel inspired by the true story of a Jewish pediatrician.