The Writing On The Wall - Juliet Rieden

Juliet Rieden is an Australian journalist, who only after her fathers death discovers his story and the fate of his family members in Czechoslovakia during the Second World War.  While on a trip to Prague Juliet visits the  local Synagogue and notices several names listed on a memorial that share her same last name.  Realizing that they be related to her, she searches for the history of the Rieden family, a family that her father barely mentioned.

It makes me sad that we now have reached a period in time when most of the survivors of the war are now gone, and for most that their stories are lost also.  For many, they didn't want to speak about their experiences and so for the next generation they know little of what their families went through.  I just felt sad reading this book, that the authors father didn't share stories about his grandparents and aunties and uncles that he grew up with.  3/5