In Search of Forgiveness

Trudi Alexy was born in Romania to a thoroughly assimilated Jewish family. After fleeing from Prague to Paris in 1938 to escape the Nazis they hid in Fascist Spain as hastily baptized Catholics before immigrating to America.</p><p>Although torn by guilt over surviving the Holocaust 'by fraud while living in Barcelona eleven-year-old Alexy fell under the spell of Catholic rituals and promise of forgiveness. She planned to become a nun but left the church disillusioned by anti-Semitism and tormented by recurring guilt and suicidal depression.</p><p>The love of her life a Greek boy she met as a teenager and hoped to marry came looking for her after a thirty-year-long separation. His recent death thirty years after they found each other again opened the floodgates to her most personal memories recorded in <I>In Search of Forgiveness</I>. She describes her many travel adventures her tender affair with an Arab diplomat her betrayal by an unscrupulous therapist and her relationships with famous writers/mentors like Henry Miller Anais Nin and Morris West.</p><p>In her sixties she began a search for the heritage she lost as a child chronicled in two books the award-winning <I>The Mezuzah In The Madonna's Foot</I>* and its sequel <I>The Marrano Legacy</I>**.</p><p>*Simon & Schuster hard cover 1993</br>Harper/San Francisco paperback 1994</br>**University of New Mexico Press 2003</p>