In Heart Songs – A Holocaust memoir,  the author traverses the landscape of memory, love and loss and breathes new life into the stories of her grandmother, aunt and cousin, who perished in the camps, and her father, who escaped. She follows in their footsteps through Czechoslovakia, Italy and England, from their beginnings as book publishers in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia. Along the way, while experiencing the deep loss and love in her own soul, Barbara Gilford also uncovers the unique legacy of the second generation of Holocaust survivors, a legacy that calls on her professional experience as a psychotherapist to identify and work through. The author and many of the second generation carry an inheritance of their parents' inability to grieve their lost families and some experience complicated Jewish identities, issues of self-esteem and of not belonging. Barbara Gilford integrates her own story of growing up in post-war Germany and in the United States with antisemitic incidents and with a very limited community of Jewish people to buttress her Jewish identity.  Filled with many photographs and transportive settings, this book offers a personal lens that illuminates her family, only a few of the six million innocent European Jews who were so mercilessly destroyed. The book carries a message concerning the enduring power of love and memory.