Helen Waldstein Wilkes

Letters from the Lost (eBook, ePUB)

A Memoir of Discovery

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 Waldstein family received these letters as they made their lives on a southern Ontario farm, where they learned to be Canadian and forget their Jewish roots. Helen Waldstein read these letters as an adult -- this changed everything. As her past refused to keep silent, Helen followed the trail of the letters back to Europe, where she discovered living witnesses who could attest to the letters' contents. She has here interwoven their stories and her own into a compelling narrative of suffering, survivor guilt, and overcoming intergenerational obstacles when exploring a traumatic past.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Athabasca University Press
• Seitenzahl: 303
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781897425541
• Artikelnr.: 37997808

Autorenporträt

Since receiving her Ph.D in French Literature, Helen Waldstein Wilkes spent 30 years teaching at every level in Canada and in the U.S. Her research interests include cross-cultural understanding, language acquisition, and neurolinguistics. Now retired and living in Vancouver, she is actively examining her own cultural inheritance and its impact.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Preface
 
Acknowledgements
Map
 
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
 
Endnotes
Selected Bibliography