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Longtime Sports Illustrated writer Wolff (The Audacity of Hoop) presents a dual biography of his grandfather Kurt Wolff (1887–1963) and his father Nikolaus ("Nico") Wolff (1921–2007), whose Jewish heritage uprooted their lives in Nazi Germany. Kurt was a successful publisher who fled Germany in 1933 with his second wife, Helen, and who together escaped to the United States in 1941. Although part Jewish, Nico remained in Germany with his mother and stepfa...Log In or Sign Up to Read More