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Local writer recounts luck, survival, and a big secret in ‘My Sister’s Eyes’ 

“Yes, mine was the kind of family that keeps secrets,” said Joan Arnay Halperin of Hillsdale, author of “My Sister’s Eyes: A Family Chronicle of Rescue and Loss During World War II.” “They were the same skeletons that thousands of Holocaust survivors kept hidden in their New World closets.”

A family’s wartime trek through Europe (Click to Read)

The Jewish Standard/Times of Israel

By DEB BRESLOWJanuary 18, 2024,

Joan finds her book My Sister’s Eyes: A Family Chronicle of Rescue and Loss During World War II at the Hillsdale, New Jersey library in the young readers’ section.