

Hell's Traces
One Murder, Two Families, Thirty-Five Holocaust Memorials
Author: Victor Ripp
Narrator: David Colacci
Unabridged: 7 hr 45 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 03/31/2017
Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Memoirs, History, Modern History, Holocaust
Synopsis
Hell's Traces tells the story of the two families' divergent paths. To spark the past to life, he embarks on a journey to visit Holocaust memorials throughout Europe.
A memorial in Warsaw that includes a boxcar like the ones that carried Jews to Auschwitz compels Ripp to contemplate the horror of Alexandre's transport to his death. One in Berlin that invokes the anti-Jewish laws of the 1930s allows him to better understand how his mother's family escaped the Nazis. In Paris he stumbles across a playground dedicated to the memory of the French children who were deported, Alexandre among them. Ultimately, Ripp sees thirty-five memorials in six countries. He encounters the artists who designed the memorials, historians who recall the events that are memorialized, and survivors with their own stories to tell.