1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990006139400403321

Autore

Ashley, William <William James ; <1860-1927

Titolo

An introduction to english economic history and theory / W.J. Ashley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : Rivingstone, 1888-1906

Descrizione fisica

2 v. ; 20 cm

Disciplina

330.0942

Locazione

FGBC

Collocazione

XV F 476

Lingua di pubblicazione

Non definito

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996213534803316

Autore

Waldstein Wilkes Helen <1936->

Titolo

Letters from the lost : a memoir of discovery / / Helen Waldstein Wilkes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athabasca University Press, 2010

Edmonton, Alberta : , : AU Press, , 2010

©2010

ISBN

1-282-85195-0

9786612851957

1-897425-54-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (303 pages) : digital file(s)

Collana

Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters

Disciplina

940.53/1809224371

Soggetti

Jews - Czech Republic - Prague

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Czech Republic

Jews - Canada

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.



Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.