Book Talk: Daniela Gerson — The Wanderers

Watch author Daniela Gerson's book talk and reading at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C.

An immigration journalist and her wife trace their family’s intertwined past to unearth a history of how hundreds of thousands of Polish Jews survived Hitler’s Holocaust at the brutal hands of Stalin — a story that sheds light on the enduring power of hope and love.

Daniela Gerson and her wife, Talia Inlender, met at a picnic in Los Angeles, not knowing that 75 years earlier, their grandparents had left homes only blocks away from each other in a small Polish town, and fled east to Ukraine. The Gersons and the Inlenders would go on parallel odysseys of 5,000 miles to survive the Holocaust – one that would, after a deceitful loyalty test from Stalin, put them on cattle cars to a Soviet Gulag, years in limbo in Central Asia, and would end, after a decade on the run, with new lives built on secrets and lies.

Daniela Gerson is an award-winning immigration reporter whose work has appeared in The New York Times, CNN, Der Spiegel, Financial Times, and Los Angeles Times. An associate professor of journalism at California State University, Northridge and editor-at-large at Zocalo Public Square, she previously worked as a community engagement editor at the LA Times and as a staff immigration reporter for the New York Sun. She lives in Los Angeles with her two children and her wife, a nationally recognized immigration attorney.

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