Curious about a cenotaph commemorating the Holocaust, Susan J. Gordon traveled to Ukraine in search of her family history — but the answers lay a little closer to home.
70 years after the Nazi occupation of Budapest, Susan J. Gordon retraces her family’s harrowing escape from Hungary — and the heroism of those who helped.
Susan J. Gordon’s father-in-law converted to Judaism at the age of 60, saying he had a ‘Jewish soul.’ Strangely enough, the gut feeling may have come from his upbringing in Sicily.