A Faux Pho­to. A Heavy Bur­den. Two Lives, For­ev­er. Inter­twined. ​“You hear noth­ing!” his moth­er shouts. But like many young chil­dren of Holo­caust sur­vivors, Arthur hears too much. And his moth­er has a lot to say. About hero­ism and hor­ror. Resilience and remorse. Anti­semitism and spine­less Amer­i­can Jews. From an array of hid­ing places, Arthur absorbs the tales she shares with friends and oth­er sur­vivors. One day, seek­ing to swipe a few bucks, Arthur dis­cov­ers an icon­ic Holo­caust image of a ter­ri­fied boy tucked in a sleeve of his mother’s wal­let. ​“Who’s this?” he asks. She insists it’s her lit­tle broth­er Meierc — Arthur’s name­sake — who was mur­dered by the Nazis. But he knows it isn’t. The pho­to cements Arthur’s real­iza­tion that he must live two lives — his and the one Meier nev­er had. It’s a bur­den that shapes Arthur’s life, fam­i­ly, and media career.