Helen was born in the US in 1958 to Polish immigrants. She and her older sister Lara were raised Catholic and strongly discouraged from asking their parents about the past, the war, or the old country. Only as adults were the sisters able to discover the family's true history: their parents were Jews, and they were the only survivors of their respective families (except for an aunt in Italy.)
The story explores what happened to the family during tehwar, and why they felt it was necessary to keep up the deception so long.
This was a very good memoir. It gives you a lot to think about.
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