What are the blind men dreaming? by Noemi Jaffe

The death camp diary of the mother is compelling, direct, extraordinary. But this isn't just an Anne Frank or Charlotte Salomon wantabe. These aren't the notes of a young girl who died young tragically. Through the commentary of her daughter and of her granddaughter we get a sense of the arc of Lili Stern's life after the death camps, the person she became and her echoing effect on her descendants.

Why was I driven to read this now? The inhumane political disaster happening today in the U.S., as Trump foments the chaos and destroys the foundations of democracy. For the first time since the end of Hitler and Nazism, it can happen here.