The Ghosts on the Wall: A Grandson's Memoir of the Holocaust

The author's German-born parents seldom spoke of the Holocaust but a monochrome portrait in the dining room hinted at a connection to a dark past. After his father's death, a chance discovery lifts the veil of silence, revealing the two ghosts in the photo not as hapless victims but as grandparents who would have loved him had they not been murdered in a concentration camp.

Theirs is a tale of unfathomable loss and a race against time but also of quiet resistance and resilience that would sh...