Welcome to Litsy!

At the heart of this amazing novel is the work of the IRC to help track and reunite missing children with their families at the end of WW2.

How do you find parents when a child is too young to speak, and hostile forces have forced their separation, in a time before DNA or email?

Unfortunately not just needed in the past - work continues. 🇺🇦
https://www.icrc.org/en/document/central-tracing-agency-missing-persons-ukraine

Wouldn't they have to trek all this way back again to get the one sailing home this afternoon? And even if she caught it, Hanne knew she'd be late back to the Heide; she'd be out after curfew, so Gustav would fret until he saw her and likely for a good while afterwards. He hadn't liked her coming to Hamburg, and she was uncertain herself now: what might she find out?

Image of present-day Hamburg via Wikipedia