"Dream Journey with the Family" is a poignant novel by Adolf Placzek that tells the moving story of a narrator adrift on a raft between the worlds of the past and present. Surrounded by the spirits of his deceased relatives, he reflects on his childhood in a Jewish family in Vienna during the 1920s and 1930s. The narrative takes the reader from New York, where the narrator lives in exile in 1940, back to his hometown of Vienna. This journey through time illuminates the challenges and the family's resistance against the growing threat of National Socialism. Placzek succeeds in bringing the memories of a lost world to life and addresses the complexity of life during a time of upheaval.