Ari's Spoon

A silver spoon hidden in a baptism gown reveals a family's darkest secret.

Gabe Goerner has lived his entire life as a devout Catholic, never questioning the family he was born into. But when he discovers a sterling silver spoon engraved with a stranger's name, a Warsaw date from 1943, and a hidden history sewn into the hem of his daughter's white baptism gown, everything he believed about himself begins to unravel.

Desperate for answers, Gabe travels to Warsaw, where dead ends and disappointments threaten to bury the truth forever. Then, in a Jewish cemetery, he uncovers buried archives hidden inside a coffin between the pages of Torah scrolls. Written by a man named Jakob Holmberg, the documents chronicle the unimaginable horrors inflicted on Polish Jews during the Nazi occupation: the shrinking ghetto walls, the trains to Treblinka, the systematic destruction of an entire community. Within those pages lies a story of love, sacrifice, and murder that connects directly to the silver spoon, and to Gabe himself.

As Gabe pieces together the fragments of a life erased by war, he must confront a question that will redefine everything: Who was Ari Holmberg, and what was the true cost of his survival?