In Two Roads Home, Daniel Finkelstein tells the stories of the Wieners and the Finkelsteins, his maternal and paternal grandparents, the former victimized by the Nazis, the latter by Communists.
HOLOCAUST survivor Margot Friedlaender wears the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of Germany, in Berlin this year. One of the writer’s relatives received the same award. (photo credit: Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters)ByGLENN C. ALTSCHULER