A thrilling mystery woven into a beatutifully constrcuted family memoir: Meryl Frank's journey to seek the truth about a beloved and revolutionary cousin, a celebrated actress in Vilna before World War II, and to answer how the next generation should honor the memory of the Holocaust. 

Ambassador Meryl Frank (ret.) is an international champion of women's leadership, human rights, and poltical participation. She was selected as on the "The Fifty Most Influential Jews in the World" by the Jerusalem Post, and was appointed as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations Commission on the Satus of Women by President Barack Obama in February 2009.