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A loving lament for the lost Jews of Amsterdam, for a mother's suffering under the Nazis, and a son's sifting through her lifetime's silence to find himself. Renowned author Yoel has always known that his mother escaped the Nazis from Amsterdam, but it is not until after she has died that he finally visits the city of his birth. There, watching an old film clip at the Jewish Historical Museum, he sees a woman with a small child - it is his mother, but the child is not him. So begins a fervent search for the truth that becomes the subject of his magnum opus, revealing Amsterdam's dark wartime history, and the underground networks which hid Jewish children away from danger - but at a cost. The author herself was born in Jerusalem to a family of prominent rabbis and scholars, raised in Jerusalem and New York and currently lives in Jerusalem where she teaches Judaism. This book has been hailed as a 'jewel box of a novel.' - New York Times. 309pp, paperback.