ABOUT THE BOOK
In September 2000, sixty one years after his family were expelled from Nazi Germany, Tom Forres
and his wife, now resident in Australia, were invited by the Berlin Senate and the Jewish communities to visit
the capital as their ‘honoured guests’, courtesy of the” German/Jewish Reconciliation Program”. Since its
inception, more than 40 years ago, thousands of former Jewish refugees have come from every corner of the
world to revisit their German home city and to experience for themselves the remarkable change that has
taken place in the post-war German/Jewish relationship. “Tears Are Not Enough” is a tribute to the
indomitable human spirit of both Jews and Gentiles - to the aged Jews who had the courage to return to their
former homeland, there to relive their traumatic childhood, and to the German people who had the moral
courage to face the truth about the Nazi Holocaust.

“Tears Are Not Enough”, is an in-depth appraisal of this unique German reconciliation initiative.
As the author recalls his own childhood, the Program becomes the link between his past and the reality of the
present. This lavishly illustrated book not only reveals the author’s sincere empathy with the Jewish survivors
of the Nazi Holocaust who suffered under the Nazi terror, but also brings to the reader’s attention the German
people’s remarkable change of heart which today drives their resolve to keep permanently alive the
unspeakable crimes committed by the Nazi government against the Jewish nation and other minorities.
In “Tears Are Not Enough”, the author reveals ‘hidden aspects’ of the German/Jewish initiative which
he sees as the basis for a potentially wider application wherever organisations are faced with the difficult task
of reconciling people of diverse cultures and ethnic background.