This book had its origins in a shoebox full of names, pictures, and annotations George M. Pikler has kept since childhood. He began working on The Piklers: A Family Odyssey On Three Continents seven years ago, and with the support and substantial input of his first cousins Shlomo Neuman, Giora Liran, and Ivan H jos, he has assembled here an account of the lives of the fifth generation of their family--his father and four aunts--as well as an extensive history of the family background and the times and places where they all lived.