In this âengrossing peek into a little-known chapter of World War II, and one familyâs harrowing tale of finding the lost pieces of its own historyâ (Karen Abbott, New York Times bestselling author of Liar Temptress Solider Spy), a woman sets out to track down the descendants of the Jewish family her grandmother helped hide seventy years earlier.
Yvette Manessis Corporon grew up listening to her grandmotherâs stories about how the people of the small Greek island Erikousa hid a Jewish familyâa tailor named Savvas and his daughtersâfrom the Nazis during World War II. Nearly 2,000 Jews from that area died in the concentration camps, but even though everyone on Erikousa knew Savvas and his family were hiding on the island, no one ever gave them up, and the family survived the war.
Years later, Yvette couldnât get the story of the Jewish tailor out of her head. She decided to track down the manâs descendantsâand eventually found them in Israel. Their tearful reunion was proof to her that evil doesnât always win. But just days after she made the connection, her cousinâs child was gunned down in a parking lot in Kansas, a victim of a Neo-Nazi out to inflict as much harm as he could. Despite her best hopes, she was forced to confront the fact that seventy years after the Nazis were defeated, remainders of their hateful legacy still linger today.
As Yvette and her family wrestled with the tragedy in their own lives, the lessons she learned from the survivors of the Holocaust helped her confront and make sense of the present. In beautiful interweaving storylines, the past and present come together in a nuanced, heartfelt âstory of compassion and collective resistanceâ with âundeniable emotional powerâ (Kirkus Reviews).