Shortly after journalist Daniela Gerson and immigration law scholar Talia Inlender met at a party in Griffith Park, the two discovered both their families came from the same tiny town in Poland, and both had ancestors who escaped the Holocaust and found their way to the United States after World War II.
The journey their families took is the subject of Gerson’s new book, “The Wanderers: A Story of Exile, Survival, and Unexpected Love in the Shadow of World War II.” She and Inlender, who are now married with children, sat down with Mariel Garza to talk about their years-long quest to trace their ancestors’ migration through Siberia, Uzbekistan, Austria, Ukraine and elsewhere before coming to the United States – an epic trek that eventually led to Gerson’s and Inlender’s meeting in Los Angeles.
