An award-winning Los Angeles reporter and journalism associate professor wrote a book after researching her late father’s refugee history. While editing an essay, her editor suggested the material could become a book after learning she and her wife came from the same town in Poland. The search expanded beyond shared origins to uncover that both families survived the Holocaust through deportation to Siberia in the Soviet Union. Reporting also revealed additional personal connections. As the work progressed, Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine intensified the relevance of the exploration, linking past exile and survival to present-day realities and relationships.
"It was five years ago in April that I wrote an essay for The New York Times on my late father's refugee history. In the editing process, when I told my editor that my wife and I were once from the same town in Poland, she responded "Now that's a book.""
"Even my editor did not know the extent of the story at the time, nor did we: That our grandparents had survived in the Soviet Union, via deportation to Siberia. That they were part of the biggest group of Jews to survive the Holocaust."
"And beyond the sweeping history, as we started reporting, we found that there were all sorts of personal connections. Then Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine and what began as a personal exploration"
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