Although an esti­mat­ed 80 per­cent of Amer­i­can Jews are of Pol­ish descent, many in the post­war gen­er­a­tion and those born lat­er know lit­tle about their fam­i­lies’ con­nec­tion to their ances­tral home. In fact, many Jews con­tin­ue to think of Poland as a bas­tion of anti-Semi­tism, since near­ly the entire pop­u­la­tion of Pol­ish Jew­ry was killed in the Holo­caust. The real­i­ty is more com­plex: although Ger­man-occu­pied Poland was the site of great per­se­cu­tion towards Jews, it was also the epi­cen­ter of Euro­pean Jew­ish life for cen­turies. Louise Stein­man sets out to exam­ine the bur­geon­ing Pol­ish-Jew­ish rec­on­cil­i­a­tion move­ment through the lens of her own fam­i­ly’s his­to­ry, join­ing the ranks of Jews of Pol­ish descent who are con­fronting both Poland’s hero­ism and occu­pa­tion-afflict­ed atroc­i­ties, and who are seek­ing to recon­nect with their fam­i­lies’ Pol­ish roots.