### The Dream That Carried Us The second arc of the Roots & Ehoes series. Spanning two continents and the aftermath of genocide, *The Dream That Carried Us* is a lyrical, harrowing, and ultimately redemptive trilogy tracing the intertwined lives of Anastazia Holomek, a young Romani survivor of Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Józef Schwartz, a Jewish teenager struggling to survive the final months of the Holocaust and the death march to Dachau. From Auschwitz and Dachau to Prague and New Orleans, their stories follow two young people torn apart by war and bound by a promise to find one another again. Through survival and liberation, chosen family and first love, displacement and rebuilding, *The Dream That Carried Us* explores memory, identity, belonging, and the quiet courage required not merely to survive, but to build a life from what was nearly destroyed.