Soundless Roar Stories, Poems, and Drawings

Ava Kadishson Schieber was born in Novi Sad, a city near Belgrade. Her mother was a convert to Judaism. Her father changed his name in order to receive a commission in the Austro-Hungarian army during the First World War. Schieber grew up in Novi Sad and then moved in 1940 to Belgrade, where the family prospered until the Nazis invaded Belgrade in 1941. Schieber went into hiding with relatives of her sister's fiance, who was Serbian. She lived with them on an isolated farm for four years, after which she was reunited with her mother. Her father and sister did not survive the war. Schieber moved with her mother to Israel after the war but has been living in Chicago for the past twenty yearsSchieber, Ava Kadishson is the author of 'Soundless Roar Stories, Poems, and Drawings', published 2002 under ISBN 9780810119147 and ISBN 0810119145.