Biography On October 12, 1951, in St. Paul Minnesota, Rochelle Sutin gave birth to Lawrence, or more commonly known as Larry. His father was Jack Sutin, and both parents were Holocaust survivors who battled in Poland throughout World War ll. The couple married on Dec. 31, 1942, in an underground bunker in the middle of the war and lasted a deeply loving and devoted couple for sixty-eight years until her death in 2010. Rochelle’s and Jack’s lives were captured in a book and play and was told numerous times through speeches and articles. Lawrence was the author along with his father, Jack Suitn and his mother Rochelle Sutin of the memoir Jack and Rochelle: A Holocaust Story of Love and Resistance, which was admired in the New York Times, won the Minnesota Book Award, and is quoted in teaching materials on Jewish armed resistance published by the United States Holocaust Museum. Lawrence has led a rather successful life. After he graduated from St. Louis Park High School in Minnesota, he then went on to the University of Michigan to receive an undergraduate degree in psychology and English. As risky …show more content…
His grandfather, who also survived the Holocaust with his parents, lived with the Sutin family and was Lawrence’s caretaker after school since both Lawrence’s family worked full time. Lawrence called himself a geek, as books were his life. Sutin always wanted to be a writer but went to law school to be safe. After a few years, he had to quit law to devote more time to his writing. He believed teaching at a college allowed a more flexible schedule, so he could do both. Between Sutin and his family, they have committed part of their life to creating See Double Press. See Double Press is an independent press devoted to original blending of text and image. The family’s goal is to publish beautiful, gripping, and demanding books that might not see the light of day in other