Irena's Gift: An epic World War II memoir of sisters, secrets and survival - Karen Kirsten clutch were forced to escape Nazi

were forced to escape Nazi Germany by fleeing to Shanghai - one of the only havens left for them and 18

beginning in Biblical times and moving forward to cover everything from WWI to Israel’s creation to the disputes dividing the country today

Almost all that remained of their vast empire was the netsuke collection

their fortunes linked

The graphic adaptation of one of the world’s most-loved books

Irena's Gift: An epic World War II memoir of sisters, secrets and survival - Karen Kirsten clutch were forced to escape NaziIf we seal off the past, how will we ever know the truth? In 1942, in Nazi occupied Poland, a Jewish child was smuggled out of the Warsaw ghetto in a backpack. That child was Karen Kirsten's mother, but she knew nothing about this extraordinary event until one day a letter arrived from a stranger. After Karen eventually discovered the grandparents she loved dearly were in fact not her biological grandparents, she travelled the globe to uncover her