JEWISH GENEALOGY
THE MEMORY KEEPER
A JOURNEY INTO THE HOLOCAUST TO FIND MY FAMILY
Jackie Kohnstamm Canongate, 320 pages, £18.99
Like many other survivors, Jackie Kohnstamm's mother Hilda didn't often speak about her Holocaust experiences, so it wasn't until after the older generation had passed that Kohnstamm inherited her family's cache of precious documents about their lives in prewar Berlin. Some of her family had escaped the Nazis, but Kohnstamm's grandparents Mally and Max had stayed behind. follows Kohnstamm's journey and her research into the shattered lives of her grandparents, who had been killed in Terezín in 1942.
