{"product_id":"wanderers-a-story-of-exile-survival-and-unexpected-love-in-the-shadow-of-world-war-ii","title":"Wanderers: A Story of Exile, Survival, and Unexpected Love in the Shadow of World War II","description":"\u003ch1\u003eWanderers: A Story of Exile, Survival, and Unexpected Love in the Shadow of World War II\u003c\/h1\u003eDaniela Gerson\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Grand Central Publishing\u003cbr\u003eMarch 31 2026\u003cbr\u003eEAN: 9780306834301\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 0306834308\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eItems marked as \u003cb\u003eWAREHOUSE\u003c\/b\u003e may take additional time to be delivered to your address or picked up in the store.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSynopsis: \u003cb\u003e\"Powerful.\" --\u003ci\u003e Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e An immigration journalist and her wife trace their family's intertwined past to unearth a history of how hundreds of thousands of Polish Jews survived Hitler's Holocaust at the brutal hands of Stalin\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ea story that sheds light on the enduring power of hope and love.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Daniela Gerson and her wife, Talia Inlender, met at a picnic in Los Angeles, not knowing that 75 years earlier, their grandparents had left homes only blocks away from each other in a small Polish town, and fled east to Ukraine. The Gersons and the Inlenders would go on parallel odysseys of 5,000 miles to survive the Holocaust--journeys that would, after a deceitful loyalty test from Stalin, put them on cattle cars to a Soviet Gulag, trap them for years in limbo in Central Asia, and would end, after a decade on the run, with new lives built on secrets and lies. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e For years, Daniela and Talia simply accepted this painful shared history as a sign that they were \u003ci\u003eb'shert\u003c\/i\u003e, meant to be. Their families' refugee past fueled their work: Daniela as an immigration journalist; Talia an immigration attorney. But as Daniela uncovered more, she realized that their grandparents shared this escape path in the Soviet Union with most Polish Jews who survived; a group--sometimes collectively called \"the Wanderers\"--that is almost entirely absent from popular understanding of World War II. And unlike most Holocaust sagas that focus on the exceptionality of the Nazi genocide, theirs was also a universal story of refugees making impossible decisions when forced to seek safety, protect their children, and find new homes. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This is a story that, to the dismay of the world, remains relevant each time a political upheaval wreaks havoc on individual lives. Part genealogical detective story, part gripping history, part contemporary reporting on war-torn territories, \u003ci\u003eThe Wanderers\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles Daniela's journey to unearth this past with her wife, and reveal its echoes in still-contested lands from Ukraine to Israel. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Wanderers\u003c\/i\u003e is a groundbreaking narrative history, and a meditation on how a home left behind and a desperate journey to survive reverberates across borders and through generations.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"27th Letter Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67391728025645,"sku":"WHS-eb048167893046f0a53c84fac8cd47bd","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/3588\/0749\/files\/original_526b67c5-6e86-42dd-a149-0cd96cb60778.jpg?v=1787356915","url":"https:\/\/27thletterbooks.com\/products\/wanderers-a-story-of-exile-survival-and-unexpected-love-in-the-shadow-of-world-war-ii","provider":"27th Letter Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}