Once Were Brothers - Ronald H Balson quotation knife’s-edge story of a life

knife’s-edge story of a life that progresses backward through time

All were "citizen-soldiers"

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Just a week after the Kristallnacht terror in 1938

adding kimchi to the seder plate

Once Were Brothers - Ronald H Balson quotation knife’s-edge story of a lifeElliot Rosenzweig, a wealthy Chicago philanthropist, is attending opening night at the opera. Ben Solomon, a retired Polish immigrant, makes his way through the crowd and shoves a gun in Rosenzweig's face, denouncing him as former SS officer, Otto Piatek. Solomon is blind sided, knocked to the floor and taken away. Rosenzweig uses his enormous influence to get Solomon released from jail, but Solomon commences a relentless pursuit to bring Rosenzweig