The following teaser is from the October 13 edition of the Boston Globe. This is a tragic and fascinating story.
CAMBRIDGE — Over the years, Dr. Joan Wheelis has bumped into John F. Kerry a couple of times at a Cambridge tailor shop they both happen to like. The psychiatrist and the then-US senator from Massachusetts said their pleasantries and went on their way, serendipitous moments that seemed to have little lasting meaning.
Then, one day a few weeks ago, Wheelis was contacted by a stranger in Britain. The stranger e-mailed to say he was Wheelis’s cousin. Then he revealed that their mutual relative was none other than Kerry.
So began a journey of discovery that veered from the magical to the tragic. The connection to Kerry, it turned out, was a set of long-lost mutual cousins: a band of four brothers, three of whom were killed at Nazi concentration camps, and a fourth who survived imprisonment at Dachau.
