Esther Minskoff: 3 books

In 1943 in Nazi Germany, Dr. Dorothea Schmidt, Director of the Berlin School for the Handicapped, watches as her students are taken away to be gassed and burned. She does nothing to stop this atrocity even though her illegitimate child, fathered by a Nazi leader, is one of the victims. Guilt haunts...

Abra, an intellectually gifted woman from a family with mentally retarded parents and siblings, is the family caretaker until she goes away to college severing all family ties. Her high school teacher helps her find a small college far from home where she begins to weave a fictitous life as an orphan....

Hannah experiences the first catastrophe of her life when she learns that her adopted father is really her biological father. Her father, a college professor, had an affair with one of his students, and Hannah is the result. With her father dead and her mother with Alzheimer's, Hannah feels lost until...