The gripping tale about two boys, once as close as brothers, who find themselves on opposite sides of the Holocaust. Elliot Rosenzweig, a respected civic leader and wealthy philanthropist, is attending a fundraiser when he is suddenly accosted and accused of being a former Nazi SS officer named Otto Piatek, the Butcher of Zamosc. Although the charges are denounced as preposterous, his accuser is convinced he is right and engages attorney Catherine Lockhart to bring Rosenzweig to justice. Solomon persuades attorney Catherine Lockhart to take his case, revealing that the true Piatek was abandoned as a child and raised by Solomon's own family only to betray them during the Nazi occupation. But has Solomon accused the right man?

Once We Were Brothers is Ronald H. Balson's compelling tale of two boys and a family who struggle to survive in war-torn Poland, and a young love that struggles to endure the unspeakable cruelty of the Holocaust. Two lives, two worlds, and sixty years converge in an explosive race to redemption that makes for a moving and powerful tale of love, survival, and ultimately the triumph of the human spirit.

這是一篇關於兩個男孩曲折糾結的故事。曾經情感勝似兄弟的兩人，卻處在大屠殺的兩端。眾人景仰的公民領袖，同時也是一位富裕慈善家的艾立歐特‧羅森史維格，某天出席一場慈善募款時，忽然有人指控他是扎莫希奇的屠夫、前納粹親衛隊官員奧托‧皮亞提克。雖然這項指控因內容荒謬而受到譴責，但控訴他的人深信無誤，希望透過律師凱瑟琳‧拉克哈特將他就地正法。索羅曼說服律師接受他的案子，還透露其實皮亞提克小時候被棄養，是索羅曼一家扶養他長大，但是他卻在納粹時期背叛他們。索羅曼的控訴是正確的嗎？

《Once We Were Brothers》是 Ronald H. Balson 精采的著作。兩名男孩與一家人在戰爭肆虐的波蘭努力存活的故事，訴說著兩位年輕人如何歷經殘酷大屠殺的感人歷程。兩條存活下來的生命，兩個不同的世界，事件的揭發與救贖歷時六十年，才匯聚成動人的故事，故事中充滿了愛、生存、以及人類心靈最終戰勝一切的正面能量。