The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
Daniel Mendelsohn, . . HarperCollins, $27.95 (528pp) ISBN 978-0-06-054297-9
As a boy in the 1960s, Mendelsohn could make elderly relatives cry just by entering the room, so much did he resemble his great-uncle Shmiel Jäger, who had been "killed by the Nazis." This short phrase was all Mendelsohn knew of his maternal grandfather Abraham's brother, who had remained with his wife and four daughters in the Ukrainian shtetl of Bolechow after Abraham left for America. Long obsessed with family history, Mendelsohn (
Reviewed on: 07/24/2006
Genre: Nonfiction
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