“Drawing on the author’s family history, Tutti’s Promise is a wonderfully moving and evocative story of love, hope and survival in the very darkest of times. Highly recommended.”—ROGER MOORHOUSE, HISTORIAN AND AUTHOR

"[A] compelling story for all readers about one family's remarkable tale of survival during the Holocaust. K. Heidi Fishman does a masterful job of weaving together Holocaust history with the account of Tutti and her family, while writing the manuscript in a style that is completely accessible for a middle-school audience. The book fills an important gap in the available literature on the subject and should reach a wide readership. Highly recommended." —Avinoam Patt, PhD, the Philip D. Feltman Professor of Modern Jewish History at the Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Hartford

"[A]n engrossing story of hope, family, survival, and identity. What's more, K. Heidi Fishman's meticulously researched novel blends drama with facts, inspiring the engaged reader to seek answers through a palpable emotional connection to the past. By drawing the reader into the extraordinary experiences of her family, the author offers us the opportunity to see in her characters our very own selves and loved ones."
—Stephen D. Smith, PhD, Andrew J. and Erna Finci Viterbi Endowned Executive Director of the USC Shoah Foundation, UNESCO Chair on Genocide Education, and Adjunct Professor of Religion at the University of Southern California

"Based on a true story, Tutti's Promise invites readers to experience one family's desperate struggle to stay together and retain their humanity during the Holocaust. Fishman's loving account is a remarkable story of luck, generosity, hope, and courage in the face of atrocity. Suitable for readers ages 10 to adult, this sensitively written and gently told novel illustrates how the world has lost and continues to lose when targeted groups are marginalized as 'other.'" —Tom White, Coordinator of Educational Outreach, Cohen Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Keene, New Hampshire

"This artfully cast . . . novel is a superb portrayal of one family's courage, resilience, and fortitude during the Holocaust. . . . [T]he great virtue of Tutti's Promise is that . . . K. Heidi Fishman . . . does not linger on horror, but has presented the family overcoming these grave obstacles in the context of hope. That perfectly rendered balance makes this book a fine choice for fourth to eighth graders." —Mary Beth Klee, Core Virtues

"I thoroughly enjoyed reading Tutti's Promise. It brought to life a terrible time that I also was part of. There can never be too many books on the Holocaust. Each story is a link in a broken chain. The author was very careful with her research and interviews to substantiate a family's odyssey and bring it to life. . . . Many pictures and documents punctuate the book like a beating drum whose voice insists to be heard. I highly recommend this book for any age." —Inge Auerbacher, child survivor of Terezin and author of I AM A STAR and five other books.