It began with a book for young adults that the two grandchildren loved reading when they were eleven or twelve: It is a story about a Jewish boy who is increasingly excluded from society after 1933 and eventually dies in an air raid. Later, the two children began reading non-fiction books about the Holocaust and developed an obsessive curiosity about the subject. As adults, they realised that their burning interest might be linked to a concealed chapter of their family’s history.
