Recent­ly, ​“third-gen­er­a­tion” authors have revis­it­ed the scenes of their Euro­pean sur­vivor fam­i­lies’ past, con­sult­ed oth­er fam­i­ly mem­bers regard­ing the fam­i­ly his­to­ry, done semi-schol­ar­ly research about this era, and have also includ­ed their own reac­tions and thoughts. Daniel Mendelsohn’s The Lost is a prime exam­ple. Here, Michael Benanav traces the lives of his grand­par­ents, who met on the deck of the Toros and mar­ried soon after. He writes about his grand­moth­er, the beau­ti­ful Isado­ra, who sur­vived Transnis­tria; and his grand­fa­ther, the dash­ing, dar­ing Joshua Szere­ny, who escaped over the Apuseni Moun­tains from a Jew­ish slave labor unit in Hun­gary as the inmates were being marched toward Auschwitz. In Roma­nia, Szere­ny learned that a boat leav­ing from Con­stan­ta would try to make it to Pales­tine. The bear­er of a notable Zion­ist sur­name, he was put in charge of the voy­age. The strong Zion­ist met the fright­ened Isado­ra, who was deter­mined nev­er to go below deck, where an attempt had been made to sex­u­al­ly assault her. He pro­tect­ed her while he also strug­gled to land the boat in Pales­tine. This is a touch­ing, his­tor­i­cal­ly impor­tant Zion­ist, as well as Shoah, his­to­ry. Trav­el author Benanav writes descrip­tive­ly and emo­tion­al­ly about the effect of this jour­ney upon him­self, includ­ing how he came by his surname.