Letters from Prague Schapiro Raya C.Paperback
Letters from Prague Schapiro Raya C.Paperback Their discovery of a box of letters to America sent from relatives in Prague led two sisters to compile this extraordinary collection. They were written…
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Letters from Prague Schapiro Raya C.Paperback
Their discovery of a box of letters to America sent from relatives in Prague led two sisters to compile this extraordinary collection. They were written by their grandmother and uncle, trapped in Prague after the Nazi occupation, to the girls' parents who had escaped to the United States in May, 1939, leaving the two girls behind. Raya Schapiro and Helga Weinberg found the letters among their mother's effects after her death in 1990.
The early letters deal with the difficulties of getting the two small girls out to join their parents in America. The 77 letters reprinted here span a period of two years, during which the Nazis drew an evertightening noose of destruction around the Jews of Prague: each letter is followed by notes of explanation and amplification, as well as notes on Nazi laws and official restrictions and the progress of the war. After that is accomplished, the grandmother