Though the book started out as a Holocaust survivor in his 80's, along with a niece who was a journalist, was trying to locate one cousin who had escaped being shot with her family in Poland, it soon became another sort of journey of discovery, that being the astonishing fact that not all Jews were killed by the Germans during/after WWII. Instead, as this family discovered, many of the Jews killed during, and especially after, WWII were done by fellow Poles, something that is heavily disputed and denied to this day. The repercussions of their search for a missing cousin showed people 75 years later were still not willing to admit what some of them in Poland had done to neighbors, friends, anc co-workers.

I will be the first to admit that the constant repetitions of Polish names and locations tended to be rather confusing, and there is no way I was able to pronounce them in my mind, as I like to do! Great uncle Sammy rubbed me a little the wrong way at times, but then I had to remember that he was the survivor, he was in his 80's and 90's, and it was his journey of discovery that I was following in this book. However, he did the world a great service by bringing to everyone's attention the fact that Poland was NOT blameless concerning the deaths of her Jewish citizens, that Poland was not an innocent victim in every instance, and that truth needs to be brought to light.

I was sent this ebook ARC by NetGalley; my opinions, however, are all my own.