A son of Holocaust survivors, writer Lev Raphael was certain that Germany was one place he would never visit. But after his mother’s death, Raphael’s research led him to a distant relative living in the very city where she had been a slave laborer.
What would he learn if he actually traveled to the place where his mother had found freedom and met his father? After his own books started appearing in German, Raphael’s frequent book tours led him to encounter not so much a new Germany, but a new self: someone unafraid to face the past and transcend it.
