Jews in the Garden is a detective story and family Holocaust memoir that “reads like a thriller” per the New York Times and follows EC’s own Judy Rakowsky, a career crime reporter, and her cousin Sam, a survivor of Nazi camps, on a quest of many trips to his native Poland. It’s a nonfiction whodunit about the wartime massacre of Jews in hiding and an inconvenient history this duo happened upon, one that was outlawed in 2018 by a Polish government insisting on patriotic history. It’s a layered tale about the obsessive pursuit of a surviving cousin who had to lose her Jewish identity to live.  

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