The story of Anna Essinger, a German Jewish teacher who smuggled her school to England in 1933 and then fielded children arriving on the Kindertransport.
In the period 1917-1921, between 100,000 and 250,000 Jews were murdered across Ukraine. Brahin, a genealogist, traces her grandmother's family history through multiple sources.
The author's Jewish father reached England from Latvia in 1939, only to be shipped to Canada as an enemy alien; his parents were deported from Bavaria to the Riga Ghetto, where they died. In... read more
The author's investigation of her family's history and her own identity was sparked by the arrival of an anonymous postcard bearing four names that arrived over forty years after those four ... read more