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033 Daniela Gerson: The Wanderers
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033 Daniela Gerson: The Wanderers

Author Daniela Gerson and Talia Inlender talk about the parallel journeys of their grandparents during World War II

Today we’re talking to not one, but two guests — a journalist, Daniela Gerson (right), and her wife Talia Inlender, who’s an immigration lawyer in Los Angeles. Daniela’s the author of THE WANDERERS, a new book about their Jewish grandparents, who all escaped the Holocaust from eastern Poland by heading east — though not together, and the coincidence they discovered about their family histories will be worth the price of admission. We talk about World War II history, fleeing the Third Reich, and about how the past is not really past.

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Resources:

The Wanderers, by Daniela Gerson

A review at the Wall Street Journal

Daniela’s website

Talia’s bio

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