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January 2003. The Berest family receive a mysterious, unsigned postcard. On one side was an image of the Opéra Garnier; on the other, the names of their relatives who were killed in Auschwitz: Ephraïm, Emma, Noémie and Jacques. Years later, Anne sought to find the truth behind this postcard. She journeys 100 years into the past, tracing the lives of her ancestors from their flight from Russia following the revolution, their journey to Latvia, Palestine, and Paris, the war and its aftermath.

Auf der Suche nach einem Unbekannten »Jede Ferien verließen wir unseren Pariser Vorort und fuhren in die Bretagne, die Heimat meines Vaters, wo er geboren worden war, genau wie sein Vater – und dessen Vater vor ihm.« Nach zwei Büchern über die Familie ihrer Mutter widmet Anne Berest...