A Woman's Search for her Family's Secret Identity
Raised with her sister as a Catholic, it was not until later in life that Helen Fremont discovered her Jewish heritage. As she delves into the extraordinary secrets that held her family together in a bond of silence for more than forty years, Helen Fremont recounts with breathtaking clarity a remarkable tale of survival, as vivid as fiction but with the unmistakable eloquence of truth.
From modern-day America to the dark heart of the holocaust, from wartime Italy to the Siberian Gulag, this powerful memoir shows how the forces of history conspire to shape our lives in ways we can neither predict nor control. No one who reads this book can be left unmoved, or fail to understand the seductive, damaging power of secrets.
