Peter Bradley’s family were German Jews. In 1938, his father was imprisoned in Buchenwald but was ultimately able to settle in Britain aged 24, penniless and alone. His parents’ fate was to be very different: they were deported by train from their home in Bavaria to Latvia, to the Riga ghetto and nearby camps, where they were murdered.
Peter felt a need to find out what had happened. Where did anti-Semitism come from and why did it continue unabated after WWII? Why also is it resurgent today? Such apparently intractable questions led Peter to dig deeply into the ancient roots of this prejudice. This book tells the story of what he learned.
