A his­tor­i­cal nov­el inspired by the expe­ri­ences of the author’s own fam­i­ly after the Holo­caust, a sweep­ing saga about sur­vival, loss, love, and the rever­ber­at­ing effects of war

In 2018, Zoe Rosen­zweig is reel­ing after the loss of her beloved grand­fa­ther, a Holo­caust sur­vivor. She becomes obsessed with find­ing out what real­ly hap­pened to her fam­i­ly dur­ing the war. 

Vien­na, 1946: Chana Rosen­zweig has endured the hor­rors of war to find her­self, her moth­er, and her younger broth­er final­ly free in Vien­na. But free­dom doesn’t look like they’d imag­ined it would, as they strug­gle to make a liv­ing and stay safe. Despite the dan­ger, Chana sneaks out most nights to return to the hotel kitchen where she works as a dish­wash­er, using the qui­et night­time hours to bake her late father’s recipes. Soon, Chana finds her­self caught in a dan­ger­ous love tri­an­gle, torn between the black-mar­ket deal­er who has offered mar­riage and pro­tec­tion, and the appren­tice bak­er who shares her pas­sions. How will Chana bal­ance her love of bak­ing against her family’s need for secu­ri­ty? The Lost Bak­er of Vien­na affirms the unbreak­able bonds of fam­i­ly, shin­ing a light on the coura­geous spir­it of WWII refugees as they bat­tle to sur­vive the over­whelm­ing hard­ships of a world torn apart.