Los fasificadores de pimienta

For decades, the family history of writer Monika Sznajderman was shrouded in mystery. His father never wanted to tell him about his experiences during the Nazi occupation of Poland, and he told him little about the paternal branch of the family: while the Lacherts, the clan of noble Catholic landowners in Volinia from which his mother came, had heard stories and anecdotes of all kinds, of the Radoms, the modest Jewish family from which his father descended, he knew absolutely nothing. The Pepper Counterfeiters recounts the investigation that Sznajderman undertook to rescue his Jewish relatives from oblivion: through letters, photographs, books and public archives, he traces the fate of his ancestors, which is largely that of Polish society during the Second World War. An extraordinary story that combines intimate narration with rigorous documentation to break the silence around one of the most tragic periods in the history of the country.