The Letters Project Audiobook Libro.fm

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In 1986 when her mother died at the age of sixtyfour Eleanor Reissa went through all of her belongings In the back of her mothers lingerie drawer she found an old leather purse Inside that purse was a large wad of folded papers They were letters Fiftysix of them 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 Eleanora theatre artist who has been on the forefront of keeping Yiddish alivefinally had the letters translated The particulars of those letters send her off on an unimaginable adventure into the past forever changing her and anyone who reads this book