Saga of the Risen from the Ashes

I became interested in my ancestry and started feeling like a link of an endless chain that goes down into the bottomless well of the past, late in life, after I had emigrated.I felt an overwhelming desire to find my family roots and tell my children and grandchildren about them after my mother passed away and the cold emptiness of eternity stood behind my back. My work was rushed by an unexpected illness, a kind of wake-up call that said: "Here's your last chance to preserve the...
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I became interested in my ancestry and started feeling like a link of an endless chain that goes down into the bottomless well of the past, late in life, after I had emigrated.I felt an overwhelming desire to find my family roots and tell my children and grandchildren about them after my mother passed away and the cold emptiness of eternity stood behind my back. My work was rushed by an unexpected illness, a kind of wake-up call that said: "Here's your last chance to preserve the family history for your descendants and to free the images of your ancestors from the void. If not you, then who?"I would like to tell an incredible family saga, a story of a branch of the Okunev family that perished in the fire of Holocaust and yet rose from the ashes, like the fabulous Phoenix, and blossomed anew in Israel and America. The core of this story is a true miracle, the incredible discovery of a seemingly lost Okunev branch, the discovery that was made with the help of a certain book.