The Letters Project
A Daughter's Journey
by Eleanor Reissa
Pub Date 18 Jan 2022
Post Hill Press
Biographies & Memoirs | History | Nonfiction (Adult)
I am reviewing a copy of The Letters Project through Post Hills Press and Netgalley:
In 1986 Eleanor Reissa’s Mother died, she was sixty four years old and Eleanor went through her Mothers 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.
By 1979 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.
If you’re looking for a courageously, gritty book, written by the daughter of Holocaust survivor, then I’d highly recommend The Letters Project.
I give The Letters Project five out of five stars!
Happy Reading!
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