For decades, writer Monika Sznajderman's family history was shrouded in mystery. His father never wanted to talk to him about his experiences during the Nazi occupation of Poland, and told him little about his paternal side of the family: while he had heard stories of the Lacherts, the clan of noble Catholic landowners in Volhynia from which his mother came. and anecdotes of all kinds, he knew absolutely nothing about the Radoms, the modest Jewish family from which his father descended. The Pepper Counterfeiters narrates the investigation that Sznajderman undertook to rescue his Jewish relatives from oblivion: through letters, photographs, books and public archives, he traces the destiny of his ancestors, which is largely that of Polish society during the Second World War. An extraordinary story that combines intimate narration with rigorous documentation to break the silence around one of the most tragic periods in the country's history.