Prague: My Long Journey Home tells of his Christian mother being sent to slave labor camp and of his hiding on a farm to avoid deportation to a death camp. With the war coming to a close, Heller tells of how he picked up a revolver and shot a Nazi when he was just nine years old. Heller, now an assimilated American, left the horrors of the past along with his birth name behind to live the proverbial American Dream. In his memoir,m he recalls how two cataclysmic events following Czechoslovakia’s Velvet Revolution brought him face-to- face with demons of his former life. On his personal journey Heller discovered and embraced his heritage one which he had abandoned decades earlier.