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This poignant memoir by Noah Lederman, the grandson of Holocaust survivors, transports readers from his grandparents' kitchen table in Brooklyn to World War II Poland. In the 1950s, Noah's grandparents raised their children on Holocaust stories. But because tales of rebellion and death camps gave his father and aunt constant nightmares, in Noah's adolescence Grandma would only recount the PG version. Noah, however, craved the uncensored truth and always felt one right question away from their pasts. But when Poppy died at the end of the millennium, it seemed the Holocaust stories died with him. In the years that followed, without the love of her life by her side, Grandma could do little more than mourn.After college, Noah, a travel writer, roamed the world for fifteen months with just one rule: avoid Poland.



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Noah Lederman

Noah Lederman is the author of A World Erased: A Grandson's Search for His Family's Holocaust secrets. His writing has been featured in the Boston Globe, the Economist, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Miami Herald, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Jerusalem Post Magazine, Salon, Slate, the New Republic, and elsewhere. He writes the blog Somewhere Or Bust.



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