Letters from the Lost

On March 15, 1939, Helen Waldstein's father snatched the last exit visa from a distracted clerk to get his wife and child out of Prague. The family left behind could only send letters after the Nazis closed in. Through the war years, letters kept coming to the southern Ontario farm where Helen's small family learned to speak English, to be Canadian farmers, and to forget they were Jewish. Helen did not notice when the letters stopped coming, but they surfaced intermittently until she couldn't ignore them anymore. Reading the letters changed everything. As her past refused to keep silent, Helen followed the trail of letters back to Europe to find living witnesses of what the letters related. She has here interwoven their stories and her own in an engrossing narrative of suffering and rescue, survivor guilt, and overcoming obstacles to intergenerational dialogue about a traumatic past.

ISBN 1897425538   Pages 210 ISBN13 9781897425534 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher AU Press   Weight (grammes) 635 Imprint AU Press   Published in EDMONTON Format Paperback   Height (mm) 139 Publication date 15 Mar 2010   Width (mm) 203 DEWEY 940.53180922   Spine width (mm) 20 DEWEY edition DC21   Academic level General

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