About the book
In 1939, Abe Huberman left Poland for a short trip to America. War kept him from returning to his wife Sonia and their children. Separated Together follows their years apart, Sonia’s survival of the Holocaust, their reunion, and the family life they rebuilt. Author Kenneth P. Price is their son-in-law.
Short author biography
Kenneth P. Price, Ph.D., is a psychologist and the author of Separated Together. He tells the story of his wife Gloria’s parents, Abe and Sonia Huberman, drawing on family memories, letters, testimony, and archival research. His perspective brings together a son-in-law’s knowledge of the family and a psychologist’s interest in the lives people build after loss.
Interview themes
Seven weeks became seven years
How an ordinary journey in 1939 separated a young family, and what it took for Abe and Sonia to find one another again.
The life after the reunion
Family, memory, and the daily acts of rebuilding that carry the story beyond liberation.
When family memory becomes a book
The letters, interviews, archival discoveries, and personal recollections behind Separated Together.
Listening across generations
What a son-in-law learned at the family table, and how stories can be preserved with care.
Questions for Kenneth
- How did you first come to know Abe and Sonia’s story?
- What did family conversations reveal that historical records could not?
- Which discovery changed the direction of your research?
- Why was it important to follow their lives beyond the reunion?
- What would you encourage readers to ask their own families?