She wasn't looking for a book. She was looking for a photograph. What she found instead was a story that had waited eighty years to be told, and a promise she didn't know she'd made until she started keeping it.
Scotti Woolery-Price never set out to write a book. She set out to find a photograph.
It began with a phone call from a consular officer at the U.S. Department of State who was writing an article for a Consular Affairs History Project While researching, the consular officer had come across Scotti’s family tree online. A single request - "Do you have a picture of Myles during his time in Marseille?"- sent Scotti on a quest that led to perusing family letters, photographs, and records that no one outside the family had seen in decades
What she found changed everything. She discovered that her grandfather had spent more than a year of his life defying his own government to save strangers from the Holocaust, and had almost never spoken of it.
Scotti made several trips back east to visit Myles’ daughters, Georgia and Melanie, and to copy family documents. She spent days at the National Archives in Maryland, tracing her grandfather's name through State Department cables and later read through War Refugee Board files. She talked to survivors' families. She read every book she could find on the topic of Marseille from that time period. Slowly, a private family mystery became a book she felt obligated to write, not just for the Standish family, but for the historians, survivors, and readers who deserve to know his name.
By day, Scotti has spent more than three decades in marketing and business leadership, holding global roles with 3M and Thales Cybersecurity Products and serving in executive leadership with the Round Rock Chamber. She holds a B.A. in Communications from Western Colorado University and an MBA from St. Edward's University. She lives in Georgetown, Texas, with her husband, Ed, close to their three grown children and two grandchildren, and spends her free time traveling, chasing live music, and writing poetry.
Rescue in the Holocaust is her first book, the record of a promise she didn’t know she had made until she started keeping it.
A single phone call led Scotti to a chapter of history her own family barely knew. Read the book that grew out of that search, and meet the grandfather she never fully knew until she went looking for him.
"I picked this up expecting a history lesson and got something closer to a gut-punch. By chapter three I'd forgotten I was reading nonfiction; I just wanted to know what happened to the people in that line."
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"What got me wasn't the heroism, it was the cost. This isn't a book about a man who did the right thing easily. It's about what it took out of him to do it at all."
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"I've read a lot of WWII history, and I'd never heard Myles Standish's name before this book. That alone tells you something. It shouldn't have taken this long for his story to surface."
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