Finding Edith: Surviving the Holocaust in Plain Sight

Finding Edith is the powerful coming-of-age memoir of Edith Mayer Cord, a Jewish girl who survived the Holocaust by hiding in plain sight across Western Europe and Vichy France. Constantly living in fear and isolation, she was eventually smuggled into Switzerland and later reunited with her mother after the war. Confronting the trauma of losing her father and brother to Auschwitz and enduring postwar poverty, Edith fought hard to rebuild her life through education. Against great odds, she earned university degrees in France, immigrated to the U.S., and built a successful career—later dedicating her life to sharing her story and its lessons.