PositiveThe Financial Times (UK)Many writers have sought to address the horrors of the Holocaust. Yet while treading a familiar path, Neumann manages to bring an engaging perspective through the personal nature of her journey of discovery ... Neumann’s efforts to tell Hans’s story chronologically, rather than in the order she unravelled the mystery, is especially effective. At times the revelations are so extraordinary to modern eyes that the memoir has an almost fictional feel ... This is Ariana Neumann’s story as much her father’s, as she recounts her journey of discovering who she is and where she has come from. Now, 75 years after the liberation of Auschwitz, the author is able to recount experiences that were too painful to be repeated by those who actually lived through them.
