The Holocaust in Poland and the Erasures of the Past

JEWS IN THE GARDEN: A Holocaust Survivor, the Fate of His Family, and the Secret History of Poland in World War II , by Judy Rakowsky

Three decades ago, the veteran reporter Judy Rakowsky began accompanying her elderly relative Sam on trips to Eastern Europe. Sam had survived the ghettos and camps of the Holocaust in Nazi-occupied Poland and Germany. He performed forced labor in a factory, as did an aunt and uncle who were among the Jews employed by Oskar Schindler, the German industrialist made famous in Steven Spielberg’s movie “Schindler’s List.”

Sam emigrated to the United States in the […]

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