if you remember 2007 was the year where we adina john was in power and accused talking about iran was complicit with the nazis during the war and said we know we are not complicit we saved jewish children. so i said my father was he run he said how did he get there and i said i have no idea. that how it started with that question so now because you know that you write about these issues about the war and the legacy and how it shaped us is something that's in the back of one's mind so i finally explore explored. >> your father died relatively young. did he ever talk about his experience during the war or your grandmother quick. >> nothing. zero. i knew three things for going new he was from a town in polan poland. i knew it was the toronto children but to me he was not a survivor nor did he present himself as a survivor and the issue with this book is that polish jews survived in the soviet union and central asia and the middle east. they are not considered survivors technically speaking. he did not present himself as a survivor we were never invited to speak and in 1953 there was a re