Hey, it's NPR's book of the day. I'm Andrew Limbaugh. Today's book is a great look at what

happens when a country refuses to look back at the totality of its own history, pockmarks and all.

The book is Jews in the Garden, a Holocaust survivor, the fate of his family, and the secret

history of Poland in World War II. And it's written by Judy Rakowski, a real old-school gum shoe-type investigative reporter.

She took multiple trips to Poland to help a family member, a Holocaust survivor, find out what

happened to his cousin.

And in this interview with Lynn Ardadi from the public's radio, she talks about how hush, hush certain polls were

when it came to discussing their role in the Holocaust. And it's a real lesson in how powerful

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Journalist Judy Rikowsky was in her 20s when she became intrigued by her elderly relative Sam,

a Holocaust survivor. On a trip Judy took with Sam to the Polish village where he grew up,

they learned that his young cousin, Hena may have escaped. And so over the next three decades, Judy returned to Poland with Sam, again and again, deploying her skills as an investigative

reporter in the quest to find Hena. But they confronted what Rikowski describes as a conspiracy

of silence. Their journey is the story Rikowski describes as a conspiracy of silence.

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