Helen Betya Rubinstein: The Case Against Rubinstein, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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Between 1942 and 1944, in a ghetto in Romanian-occupied Ukraine, Pinkhas Rubinstein helped transport hundreds of children to safety. He was sent to Stalin's Gulag for his actions, sentenced to miss the first years of his son's life.

More than half a century later, his granddaughter, the writer Helen Betya Rubinstein, asks to see the one account of him she has never read: the long-classified case the Soviet secret police built to condemn him. She has already written her grandfather's story in hundreds of failed drafts. How can she trust a story that would be so easy to love?

Part history, part memoir, part inquest, The Case Against Rubinstein is an inspired search for one man across a sealed archive and an unreliable century, and a reckoning with why the stories we most want to tell are the ones hardest to reveal.