With his young family fast asleep, Maksim Goldenshteyn sat at the dining room table and pressed play.
The recording crackled. A man’s voice, his grandfather’s, cut through the din.
Nearly five years earlier, in 2012, Motl Braverman plopped down on his couch in Bellevue and relayed the war story he’d long withheld from his scruffy 23-year-old grandson.
In 1941, Braverman and almost every other Jewish resident of Tulchyn, a small town in Soviet Ukraine, were sent to a “death camp” in Pechera started not by German Nazis but by Romanian allies at the urging of dictator Ion Antonescu. For years, like others in these lesser-known camps across Eastern Europe, they
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