Brooke Randel, youngest granddaughter, created a beautiful in-depth portrait of her Bubbie, Golda Ingig, a survivor of the Holocaust.

From the first sentence …. when we learn how and why Brooke was ….
born in a car …
I was totally hooked and captivated.
I lost hours of sleep last night enjoying every minute of my time learning about Brooke’s Bubbie, Brooke herself, their family, their …. ‘stories’…. both past and present.
I’m Jewish too. I have family who also survived the Holocaust. I’ll never stop reading these stories!
I lived in Israel for a year (during the Yom Kippur war)…
I value — sooo much — stories like the one Brooke wrote.
I don’t want to spoil the intimacy … giving away details. It’s already a slim book.
Oh….but my grandmother was born in Czechoslovakia, too.

In “Also Here”, we ‘do’ visit (re-visit for many of us), the harrowing past that Bubbie went through: starvation, fear, and the devastating ugliness of the Holocaust,
but we also experience the love between a grandmother and her granddaughter. . . a priceless relationship…
and the great value of passing down family stories.

I admire Brooke Randel for writing this memoir.
Gosh … I wish to hug her.
I’d love to be friends with her.

This beautifully written moved me.
And …
thank you Brooke—I reflected about family too: my mother, father, grandparents… all deceased now.
My own Grandma-Cookie reminded me a lot of Brooke’s Bubbie.
She, too, was a short-‘strong-like-bull’ wonderful woman
who was also putting her family first.

Congratulations to our beautiful author. Brooke’s soul and humanity oozes love and connections on every page.. .