Part one of the Zol Zayn Shulem (may there be peace) serie, Zores (trou­ble) — is Daniel Zylbersztajn-Lewandowski’s attempt to recon­struct and reflect upon the lives of his mother’s and his father’s fam­i­lies before and dur­ing the Holo­caust, in Ger­many, Poland and the Nether­lands. It reflects on one side on the past of a small Yid­dish- speak­ing Jew­ish shtetl in Poland, and on the oth­er fam­i­ly, in Ger­many, hav­ing risen to become a major trade name and roy­al mer­chant name around 1910. While the Munich-based side of his fam­i­ly sur­vives the Third Reich by virtue of an ear­li­er mixed mar­riage, the Jew­ish Berlin side and the Jew­ish branch in Poland are near­ly all mur­dered, though some mirac­u­lous­ly escape death. Zores doc­u­ments in detail their indi­vid­ual lives and tragedies. Unlike many such his­to­ries which end at lib­er­a­tion in 1945, this book also exam­ines the sur­vivors’ lives in Poland and Ger­many in the pe- riod imme­di­ate­ly after the Holocaust.