A Writer Finds Her Lost Roots and Gains Love and Hope
Psychology Today | 16.05.2026 03:30
Daniela Gerson is an award-winning Los Angeles-based reporter, as well as an associate professor of journalism. When I read her new book, The Wanderers: A Story of Exile, Survival, and Unexpected Love in the Shadow of World War II, I realized that my and her (and her wife's) grandparents’ journeys from Europe overlapped in some ways, though at different times—and although I never deeply researched my own roots, I found Gerson’s discoveries familiar as well as fascinating.
