‘it took me 40 years to uncover the details of my father’s fate’

An idyllic neighbourhood on the edge of Berlin was once home to elite Nazis who carried out some of the worst crimes of the era. Eighty years on, the families that live there are still grappling with its tangled legacy. Sally McGrane reports

Yorkshire-born Sarah Le Marchand has a clear memory of walking along the sea wall at Beaumont in the Channel Island of Jersey as a teenager with her older cousin Chris. Her mother’s family, the Boléat

A Ukrainian PoW’s story Dmytro Chorny had been ...

In actor Andrew Garfield’s Who Do You Think You Are? episode he made the sad discovery that three of his great grandfather’s sisters were murdered in the Treblinka extermination camp. A number of phot

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Puzzles fascinate me, so when I discovered that my father was adopted I longed to know more of the story. The quest began in 1989 before the Web, and has involved determination, heartache, slammed doo