Letters From the Lost: A Memoir of Discovery

• Auteur principal: Helen Waldstein Wilkes (auth)
• Format: Électronique Chapitre de livre
• Langue: anglais
• Publié: Athabasca University Press 2010
• Collection: Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters
• Sujets: immigration; Holocaust; Judaism; World War II
• Accès en ligne: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

On March 15, 1939, Helen Waldstein's father snatched his stamped exit visa from a distracted clerk to escape from Prague with his wife and child. As the Nazis closed in on a war-torn Czechoslovakia, only letters from their extended family could reach Canada through the barriers of conflict. The...