大象传媒

Esther Safran Foer sets about finding the Ukranian Shtetl where her father was hidden during the Holocaust, and makes unexpected progress in her quest. Sara Kestelman reads.

Esther Safran Foer knows little about her father. Then in her early forties, she learns that her father had been married once before and had a daughter, Esther's half sister, and that they had both perished in the Holocaust. Without names, or photos there is nothing to know about them, and so Esther embarks on a journey to remember and recover the past. What emerges is a powerful story about loss, memory and the power of kinship and community.

Esther Safran Foer was the CEO of Sixth and I, a centre for arts, ideas and religion. She lives in Washington D.C with her husband Bert. They are the parents of Franklin, Jonathan, and Joshua, and the grandparents of six.

Abridged by Julian Wilkinson
Produced by Elizabeth Allard