What They Didn't Burn: Uncovering My Father's Holocaust Secrets

What if you uncovered a Nazi paper trail that revealed your father to be a man very different from the quiet, introspective dad you knew . . . or thought you knew?

Growing up, author Mel Laytner saw his father as a quintessential Type B: passive and conventional. As he uncovered documents the Nazis didn't burn, however, another man emerged-a black market ringleader and wily camp survivor who made his own luck. The tattered papers also shed light on painful secrets his father took to his gra...