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01848aam a2200289Ii 4500 001 0358EBA8300511EDA406B4E81FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220909010236 008 210720s2022 nyuah 000 0 eng d 020 $a 1637582552 020 $a 9781637582558 040 $d SILO 050 4 $a DS134.42.R45 $b R45 2022 082 04 $a 940.53/18092 $2 23 100 1 $a Reissa, Eleanor, $e author. 245 14 $a The letters project : $b a daughters journey / $c Eleanor Reissa. 264 1 $a New York : $b Post Hill Press, $c [2022] 300 $a xv, 254 pages : $b illustrations, facsimiles ; $c 23 cm. 520 $a "In 1986, when her mother died at the age of sixty-four, Eleanor Reissa went through all of her belongings. In the back of her mother's lingerie drawer, she found an old leather purse. Inside that purse was a large wad of folded papers. They were letters. Fifty-six 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, Eleanor--a theatre artist who has been on the forefront of keeping Yiddish alive--finally 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."--Amazon.com. 600 10 $a Reissa, Eleanor $x Family. 650 0 $a Holocaust survivors $x Correspondence. 650 0 $a Holocaust survivors' writings, German $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Children of Holocaust survivors. 655 7 $a Personal correspondence. $2 lcgft. 941 $a 1 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20220909011603.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0358EBA8300511EDA406B4E81FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search