About the Author

Learning how Grete and Harry Schindler's orphaned daughter survived her adolescence and burgeoning womanhood in French concentration camps during the turmoil of the Second World War, author Douglas Boyd tracked her down as an old lady of seventy-eight. As for a detective tackling a long-cold case, this involved going patiently from clue to clue, following her from France to Israel to New York half a century earlier and then back to France on retirement. Suffering from Parkinson's when they met at her apartment in a Paris suburb, she trusted him with the precious few relics of her family life and helped in his research before, sadly dying, courageous to the last.