Table of Contents
Introduction: They Weren't Really Gone After All xiii
Part 1
Chapter 1 We Loved Them Like Sisters 3
Chapter 2 The Jews of Corfu 7
Chapter 3 You Are Orphans Now 20
Chapter 4 Pass the Lamb. We Saved the Jews. 28
Chapter 5 Papa Savvas, the Jewish Tailor of Corfu 33
Chapter 6 The Nightly Knock at the Door 43
Chapter 7 Yia-yia Never Told 50
Part 2
Chapter 8 Searching for Savvas 71
Chapter 9 Righteous Among the Nations 78
Chapter 10 Whatever You Do, Don't Challenge Him to a Game of Chess 93
Chapter 11 I Think Our Grandmothers Were Friends 99
Part 3
Chapter 12 Reat and Bill 107
Chapter 13 When Words Don't Make Sense 124
Chapter 14 Tragic Irony 137
Chapter 15 He Picked the Wrong Family and the Wrong Community 140
Chapter 16 He Was Watching Over Them 152
Part 4
Chapter 17 The Ones Who Stood Up 161
Chapter 18 Heaven Is All Around Us 169
Part 5
Chapter 19 It Was Nothing. It Was Everything. 197
Chapter 20 Piecing Together the Story of Savvas 214
Chapter 21 Rosa's Family 226
Chapter 22 Modern Miracles 240
Chapter 23 Reunion 245
Chapter 24 Erikousa's Icarus 254
Chapter 25 Finding Savvas 267
Chapter 26 Full Circle 273
Epilogue 286
Afterword Lessons from New and Cherished Friends 292
Acknowledgments 303