"This is the multigenerational saga of one extended family's struggles-spanning several countries and two world wars-and their indomitable determination to persevere and prosper. A gripping and often lyrical narrative."
-Robert Goldsborough, Nero Book Award-winning author
In a world full of wrong, one family did all they could to survive and stay on the right side of humanity.
Amid the chaos of World War I, Adolf "Adi" Dindinger, a young German soldier, falls in love with Tatjana Wiczewski, a Russian Jewish woman living in Eastern Europe. When Bolshevik forces burn her village, Adi and Tatjana flee to Poland, where forged German citizenship papers conceal Tatjana's Jewish heritage and allow them to build a life together. They marry and raise four children, but as tensions between Germany and Poland intensify, the secret protecting their family becomes increasingly dangerous.
When World War II breaks out, the childrenānow young adults and teenagersāenter worlds of chemical engineering, music, figure skating, and espionage. Under the Third Reich, their abilities make them valuable; their family's hidden past makes them targets.
As the war tightens its grip, the Dindingers face impossible choices: protect themselves or protect others; remain silent or risk everything. In a world where morality is distorted by power, even small acts of conscience can carry deadly consequences.
Dr. Ruth Hillelson, the daughter of the youngest Dindinger sibling, reconstructs her family's extraordinary story from inherited letters, official documents, photographs, and family testimonyāmaterials preserved for decades and eventually passed down to her. In The Right Side of Wrong, those fragments reveal a deeply human story of trials and triumphs that is both poignant and extremely relevant today.