Carl Wistre­ich is the son of Holo­caust sur­vivors from Poland and Ger­many. Fol­low­ing a suc­cess­ful career in busi­ness and law, Carl had achieved the finan­cial secu­ri­ty his grand­par­ents had in their respec­tive coun­tries before they made the life­sav­ing deci­sion to leave it all (includ­ing close rel­a­tives) behind. Not until he was in his fifties and final­ly had time on his hands to read fam­i­ly mem­oirs describ­ing mirac­u­lous sto­ries of sur­vival did Carl real­ize these fas­ci­nat­ing sto­ries his par­ents rarely spoke about need­ed to be shared.