The bestseller now in paperback. The members of the far-flung Wolffsohn family, who escaped the Holocaust, can be described as lucky children or almost lucky children – for they lost everything except their lives – as they made their way to Palestine, later Israel, or to other parts of the world. Some even returned to Germany, despite everything, like Michael Wolffsohn's grandfather Karl Wolffsohn and his wife Recha. Michael Wolffsohn tells their story with precision and without any embellishment, recounting what they experienced, how they lived and loved before, in exile, and after, and how their experiences shaped their children and grandchildren.