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Irena's Gift: An epic World War II memoir of sisters, secrets and survival - Karen Kirsten clutch of paying attention to theIf we seal off the past, how will we ever know the truth? In 1942, in Nazi occupied Poland, a Jewish child was smuggled out of the Warsaw ghetto in a backpack. That child was Karen Kirsten's mother, but she knew nothing about this extraordinary event until one day a letter arrived from a stranger. After Karen eventually discovered the grandparents she loved dearly were in fact not her biological grandparents, she travelled the globe to uncover her