He did it so that the Russians know about the crimes committed by their soldiers and government. “I never knew my paternal grandparents because they were deported to Auschwitz,” Marc Levy wrote. “Growing up, when I asked my teachers why nothing was done to stop Nazi deportations and abductions, the answer always was ‘we didn’t know’. When I learned about the large scale, systematic deportation of Ukrainian children, I decided to write a novel about it. So that those who will read it will never be able to say ‘we didn’t know’ again.” Read also: Russian invasion kills 561 children in Ukraine, in…
