In Sep­tem­ber 2021, A.J. Sidran­sky under­took a jour­ney with his adult son to seek out the places Sidransky’s grand­par­ents were born and to bet­ter under­stand not only where they came from and what hap­pened to their fam­i­lies dur­ing the Shoah, but also to bet­ter under­stand him­self and for his son to have a bet­ter under­stand­ing of his her­itage and his place in his own his­to­ry. The results were more than either of them could have imagined.