In the earliest years of the 20th century four children were born to an impoverished Jewish couple living in a remote corner of the Austro-Hungarian empire. Over the course of the century the storms of history would scatter the lives of Henri, Jacques, Alex and Sala Glass across the globe, as far afield as Miami and Paris. Their diverse fates are the subject of Hadley Freeman’s new book. The archaic poverty of Chrzanow, the shtetl where the Glass children were born, is a reminder of just how long the 20th century was. Alex would live to be photographed with his arm round his great-niece Hadley, a journalist whom you can follow on Twitter and read online.

Source: The Times March 10, 2020 12:11 UTC