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Zol Zayn Shulem - May there be Peace - is Daniel Zylbersztajn-Lewandowski's attempt to reconstruct and reflect upon the lives of his mother's and his father's families before and during the Holocaust, in Germany, Poland and the Netherlands. While the Munich-based side of his family survive the Third Reich by virtue of an earlier mixed marriage, the Jewish Berlin side and the Jewish branch in Poland are nearly all murdered, though some miraculously escape death. Zores (trouble), the first book of the series, documents in detail their individual lives and tragedies. Unlike many such histories which end at liberation in 1945, this book also examines the survivors' lives in Poland and Germany in the period immediately after the Holocaust. In the second book, Faroys (forward), the author looks back on his own life, lived in the constant shadow of the past as he grew up among Jewish survivors, mainly in post-war Germany but also in the Netherlands and Israel, and settled in Britain as an adult.

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The German-Jewish, London-based author Daniel Zylbersztajn-Lewandowski has been the London correspondent of the German socio-critical left newspaper taz, die Tageszeitung, one of Germany's main newspapers since 2012. He was born in 1969 in the Bavarian capital Munich, where he lived until he was 16. After completing secondary school in Israel, he moved to London in 1991 to study politics and history at SOAS. In 1995 he married his wife, who is a Sierra Leonean Kreo, a group of people who returned to West Africa following enslavement in the Americas through the trans-Atlantic-slave trade. Zylbersztajn-Lewandowski also worked amongst others for Oasis of Peace UK, supporting the Israeli Jewish and Palestinian Peace Village Wahat al-Salam-Neve Shalom.

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