The Letters Project: A Daughter's Journey Reissa Eleanor
The Letters Project: A Daughter's Journey Reissa Eleanor The Letters Project is about big history, the Holocaust, but it is also an extraordinarily intimate personal narrative--a rare blend of…
Specifikacia The Letters Project: A Daughter's Journey Reissa Eleanor
The Letters Project: A Daughter's Journey Reissa Eleanor
The Letters Project is about big history, the Holocaust, but it is also an extraordinarily intimate personal narrative--a rare blend of informative, poignant, excruciating, startling, humorous, and ultimately inspiring storytelling.In 1986, when her mother died at the age of sixty-four, Eleanor Reissa went through all of her belongings. Inside that purse was a large wad of folded papers. In the back of her mother's lingerie drawer, she found an old leather purse.
Fifty-six of them. They were letters. In German.
Written in 1949. Letters from her father to her mother, when they were courting. Just four years earlier, he had fought to stay alive in Auschwitz and on the Death March while she had spent the war years suffering in Uzbekistan.
Thirty years later, Eleanor--a theatre artist who has been on the forefront of keeping Yiddish alive--finally had the letters
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