Good piece, but please set the record straight on Stan Ostern's family.
His father Henry, you write, "was never heard from again—until recently." In fact he reconciled with his wife and son after the war and moved to Manhattan, where he practiced medicine for many years.
During the war, when he believed his wife and son were no longer alive, Henry Ostern fathered a son with a Polish woman. Stan's half-brother Marek had a son whose Google search of his grandfather's name led to the meeting of two brothers who grew up not knowing of one another.
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Good piece, but please set the record straight on Stan Ostern's family.
His father Henry, you write, "was never heard from again—until recently." In fact he reconciled with his wife and son after the war and moved to Manhattan, where he practiced medicine for many years.
During the war, when he believed his wife and son were no longer alive, Henry Ostern fathered a son with a Polish woman. Stan's half-brother Marek had a son whose Google search of his grandfather's name led to the meeting of two brothers who grew up not knowing of one another.
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