Letters from the Lost: A Memoir of Discovery

by Helen Waldstein Wilkes

On March 15, 1939, as Hitler's army rolled into Prague, Helen Waldstein's father snatched the last exit visa from a distracted clerk and fled with wife and child. Only letters from the rest of their family could follow as 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1897425538
• ISBN13: 9781897425534
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Athabasca University Press
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"