Letters from the lost : : a memoir of discovery / / Helen Waldstein Wilkes.
On 15 March 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 Walds...
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| Superior document: | Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edmonton, Alberta : : AU Press,, 2010. ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Our lives--diary, memoir, and letters.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (303 pages) :; digital file(s). |
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Table of Contents:
- Family Tree
- Opening the Box
- Leaving Home
- Letters to Antwerp
- Starting Over
- Letters to Canada
- Searching In Europe: 1997-1998
- My Aunts and Uncles
- My Grandparents
- War Breaks Out
- The Family Copes
- The Letters Stop
- Imagining
- After the War
- Finding Home
- Searching for Family Again
- Searching for Family One Last Time
- Epilogue.