The Economist - family stories from wartime Poland

JONATHAN FREEDLAND, one of Britain's most talented left-wing commentators, is investigating his Jewish roots in eastern Europe. From his base at the Guardian newspaper in London, Freedland has written passionately about anti-Semitism in central and eastern Europe, the British Conservatives' alliance in the European Parliament with right-wing parties in the region, and, more recently, how historical revisionism about the wartime suffering of eastern Europeans might play into the hands of apologists for the Holocaust.