jewish orphans

In 1919, four-year-old Rachel Rabinowitz is placed in the Hebrew Infant Home where Dr. Mildred Solomon is conducting medical research on the children. Dr. Solomon subjects Rachel to an experimental course of X-ray treatments that establish the doctor's reputation while risking the little girl's health. Now it's 1954, and Rachel is a nurse in the hospice wing of the Old Hebrews Home when elderly Dr. Solomon becomes her patient. Realizing the power she holds over the helpless doctor, Rachel embarks on a dangerous experiment of her own design. Before the night shift ends, Rachel will be forced to choose between forgiveness and revenge.

The author presents the story of his father, who, when he was five years old, witnessed the massacre of his mother and siblings by a Nazi death squad in 1941, and who was eventually discovered by a Nazi-led Latvian police brigade who took him in as their mascot and described his life-long struggle to reconnect with his Jewish roots.