Daniela Gerson's 'The Wanderers' Chronicles Holocaust Survivors' Journey to the Soviet Union
Daniela Gerson, an immigration reporter and professor of journalism, has released a new book titled 'The Wanderers,' which explores the journey of her grandparents and other Polish Jews who fled to the Soviet Union during the Holocaust. The book combines memoir, history, and journalism to recount the experiences of nearly 300,000 Polish Jews who escaped Nazi-occupied Poland in 1939. Gerson's grandparents, along with the Inlender family, were among those who chose to cross into the Soviet Union, only to face years of exile in Siberian labor camps and Central Asia. The narrative highlights the challenges they faced, including hunger, disease, and forced labor, as well as their eventual migration to displaced persons camps in Austria and Germany after the war. 
