Asaf Anonimi

I write as Asaf Anonimi.

As a child, I was hurt, and no one saw. I learned to stay silent, and that silence followed me for decades: through a difficult adolescence, through anxiety, through years of not fitting in anywhere, through hard battles in love and at work. The trauma never really went away. It kept simmering beneath the surface.

I fell, and I got up. And I fell again. Slowly, between the falls, I built something I didn’t know I had: resilience.

I married the love of my life. Together, in the shadow of everything I carried, we raised three wonderful children: kind, loving, giving to others. They are my greatest success.

For many years I worked with children and teenagers in distress, in residential care homes. I saw in them the child I had been, and I gave them what I never received: someone who sees.

For the past eleven years I have volunteered as a socio-economic advisor for people of limited means. In the past I also volunteered with the elderly and with Holocaust survivors.

Asking for My Right: The Voice of a Child is my story. It is available in English and Hebrew, and the first book, The Goalkeeper, is also available in Spanish.