One of my favorite books is Stephen Ambrose’s Band of Brothers. He writes about a company of paratroopers during World War II, following them from D-Day to the end of the war. They land on Utah Beach in complete chaos, push through Europe, almost freeze that winter, help liberate Dachau, and take Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest

I saw last weekend an interesting documentary called “Hiding and Seeking.” The film chronicles an Orthodox Jewish family’s journey back to the old country, but also, back in time. The narrator and his wife both have parents who survived the Holocaust.  They take their grown sons back to the small eastern European towns where family members