20. Troubling Questions About Uncle Dirk
In 1943 Denmark’s German occupiers set out to round up the country’s Jews, but the Danes, in an act of widespread civil disobedience, managed to spirit most of Denmark’s Jews to safety in Sweden. Pasternak was left to wonder: if his uncle Dirck had been alive and in Denmark back then, would he have arrested and turned in the Danish author’s father? While on the Eastern Front, had uncle Dirck participated in murdering the family of Pasternak’s grandfather?