The Unanswered Letter: One Holocaust Family's Desperate Plea for Help Cassell Faris
The Unanswered Letter: One Holocaust Family's Desperate Plea for Help Cassell Faris In 1939, as the Nazis closed in, Alfred Berger mailed a desperate letter to an American stranger who happened to…
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The Unanswered Letter: One Holocaust Family's Desperate Plea for Help Cassell Faris
In 1939, as the Nazis closed in, Alfred Berger mailed a desperate letter to an American stranger who happened to share his last name. But now their money, connections, and emotional energy were nearly exhausted. He and his wife, Viennese Jews, had found escape routes for their daughters.
By pure chance I got your address.... Alfred begged the American recipient of the letter, "You are surely informed about the situation of all Jews in Central Europe.... My daughter and her husband will go...
to America.... Help us to follow our children.... It is our last and only hope...."After languishing in a California attic for decades, Alfred's letter ended up in the hands of Faris Cassell, a journalist who couldn't rest until she discovered the ending of the story.
Traveling across the United States as well as to Austria, the Czech Republic, Belarus, and Israel, she uncovered an
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