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Judy Rakowsky

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Lima, Ohio, The United States

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Nonfiction, Memoir, Mystery

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Judy Rakowsky has spent decades knocking on strangers' doors and making cold calls as a journalist, trying to answer the age old question of crime reporting: how could they? As a reporter and editor, she spent three decades in an award-winning career that took her to five metropolitan dailies including the Boston Globe, the Providence Journal as well as People Magazine. For vacation, she journeyed repeatedly to the native land of cousin Sam, who survived four Nazi camps and a death march, on a quest to find a living survivor. She learned from his optimism and resilience and they discovered truths about the fate of relatives that the Polish government has made illegal to tell.
When she's not on deadline, she would prefer to be in or under wa ...more

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Jews in the Garden: A Family's Search for Truth After War

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“In that same period, the government of Poland passed a law permanently slamming shut the door on heirs with hopes of seeking restitution for property taken by Germans and kept by Poles. The property law sparked a row with the United States and Israel, which recalled its highest diplomat in Poland.”
― Judy Rakowsky, Jews in the Garden: A Family's Search for Truth After War

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