In 2009, Antony Easton stumbled upon a small brown leather suitcase hidden under his late father Peter’s bed in Lymington, Hampshire. What he discovered inside would unravel a decades-long mystery about his family’s past, revealing a tale of immense wealth, devastating loss, and survival during the Holocaust. The suitcase contained immaculate German banknotes, photo albums, and a birth certificate that shattered Antony’s understanding of his father’s identity. Peter Roderick Easton, who had prided himself on his ‘Englishness,’ was, in fact, born Peter Hans Rudolf Eisner in pre-war Germany, a member of one of Berlin’s wealthiest Jewish families.