Lena sits down over multiple sessions with Catherine to tell her story of how it came to pass that these two newborn baby girls were thrown out of a moving Nazi transport train in 1943 by desperate women headed to a concentration camp. Attorney Catherine Taggart and her husband Liam are drawn into a World War II mystery when Lena Scheinman, a woman in her late 80’s and a Jewish Polish survivor of the Holocaust shows up on their doorstep asking for help in finding the twins of Lena’s deceased best friend, Karolina.

She requests the assistance of lawyer Catherine Lockhart and private investigator Liam Taggart and it's in their presence that this poignant tale unfolds.who experienced many of the travails described to me by Fay, but, some of the episodes,mthough authentic in their occurrence to others, did not involve Fay," The author has also drawn upon memoirs, Yizkor Books, museum archives and personal stories conveyed to the author. I come from a different country, I’ve had a different experience, but so many students have come from overseas and I realised that actually they might want to hear what I have to say. Her selfish son, Arthur wants to declare her unfit and delusional about the existence of her friend Karolina's twins and take over her fortune and control her life. There are two parts to the story, the recounting by Lena, of her experiences during the Nazi occupation and the court battle that she and her lawyer/detective team are undergoing in present time. It begins with two non Jews, one of whom is an elderly woman named Lena, which is set in my hometown of Chicago.

Through this association and many more, both Lena and Catherine begin to cherish the dogged ties that bind not only families and children, but the entirety of mankind. This is a fictionalized account of the true story of a survivor named Fay, and that is why it rates 4 stars vs 3.I have a TRO set for Monday morning, for which I’m unprepared, and then somebody I know told Gladys to schedule an appointment for tomorrow at three, taking away my entire afternoon.