I believe that the topic of identity is closely related to our daily lives. The author of this book, Nora Krug, is also searching for her identity.
She was born a few decades after the fall of the Nazi regime, but the Second World War casts a huge shadow over her. She knows little about her family's involvement in the war, and although all four of her grandparents lived through it, they never spoke of it.
Her years of living in the United States have made her realise that there is a greater need to ask the questions that she was afraid to ask as a child, and this has triggered her to go back to her roots in Germany. She hoped to use the trip to access archives, conduct research and interview family members, a process that would reveal the stories of her grandparents. In the process she documented her findings and feelings in the form of collages and drawings. Gradually, she pieced together the post-war history of Germany, the Holocaust, and her place in the family.
