Separated TogetherThe Incredible True WWII Story of Soulmates Stranded an Ocean Apart

The story

A history that continued at the family table.

In occupied Poland, Sonia faced the Warsaw ghetto, deportation, the murder of her children, and imprisonment in Nazi concentration camps. The care of other women—including her sister—runs through her account. Across the Atlantic, Abe struggled with uncertainty, unfamiliar work, and his efforts to learn the fate of his family.

After the war, a published search notice helped reconnect them. Sonia reached America in 1946. Their reunion began another chapter: making a home, raising children, and finding ways to live with the past.

Kenneth P. Price knew Abe and Sonia as his wife Gloria’s parents. His account follows their story into the decades after the war, where memory lives in family rituals, acts of generosity, and conversations between generations.

A personal story within a larger history.

Kenneth describes the book as a personal-historical memoir: an intimate account of Abe and Sonia’s lives, set within the history of prewar Europe, the rise of Nazism, and the Holocaust. Drawing on personal recollections, letters, interviews, and historical research, he combines an intimate family narrative with a psychologist’s reflections on the lives Abe and Sonia rebuilt.

Why Kenneth wrote it

Gloria’s talks about her parents often led to the same request: their story should become a book. Kenneth took up that task, bringing family memories into conversation with documentary records so that the history could reach readers beyond the family.