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Finding Your Roots
We’re Two Generations Removed From Potential Obliteration
Damon Lindelof reads an account of the atrocities committed by Nazi troops in 1941 when they invaded Bialystok, Poland, the hometown of his relatives, and created a Jewish ghetto.
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