The Discovery of Richard Hecht

The Discovery of Richard Hecht is the story of a Jew born in a small town in southern Poland in 1928. His parents immigrated to Paris in 1929 and he grew up there assimilating the French age de raison culture. During the Second World War and the German occupation of France he escaped from being shipped to Auschwitz for exterminationby the Germans first by hiding in an abbey then by hiding in a family of lumberjacks in Burgundy in the last two and a half years of the German occupation. His father died in an airplane crash in 1948 causing a breakup in his family. In 1959 Richard his wife Madeleine and their daughter Elisabeth immigrated to the U.S.A. where he pursued his career as a Designer-Patternmaker for ladies Ready-to- Wear clothing industry. In 1961 his son Solomon was born. After retiring to Cape Cod Massachusetts Richard decided to write his memoirs to find out what his life was all about. In the process of examining his familys conflicts and the challenges of his professional life he discovered himself.