Abstract
In Red Saint, Pink Daughter, her autobiography and biography of her Polish-Jewish Communist mother in the Weimar Republic, Silvia Rodgers speaks, with unique honesty, of a difficult mother—daughter relationship and the cultural shock of her new life in war-time and post-war Britain. The book was shortlisted for the Jewish Quarterly—Wingate prize in 1997. The following is a new Afterword written especially for the forthcoming paperback edition.