Elisa Segrave

On the run from the Nazis: a Polish family’s protracted ordeal

While eager to learn more about her family’s wartime history, Frances Stonor Saunders is reluctant to open her father’s case of papers

Entrance to Belzec extermination camp, where most Slomnickis perished in 1942. [Getty Images]
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  • The Suitcase: Six Attempts to Cross a Border

    Frances Stonor Saunders

    Jonathan Cape, pp. 222, £18

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