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Lifesaving Letters - A Child's Flight from the Holocaust (Hardcover)
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Lifesaving Letters - A Child's Flight from the Holocaust (Hardcover)
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In 1939, in the shadow of Hitler's occupation of Czechoslovakia,
six-year-old Milena Roth was sent away from her home and her loving
parents and taken to safety by what came to be know as the
Kindertransport, which rescued ten thousand Jewish children from
the Holocaust and placed them with guardians in England. When she
boarded the train in Prague, expecting to be reunited soon with her
parents, Milena was aware of the danger and terror that surrounded
her: "I knew I would die if I didn't go." At the end of her long
journey she found a xenophobic, racist society, "an anti-Semitic
country in an anti-Semitic world." Milena settled into the
household of her mother's English friend from the Girl Guides, who
had agreed to take Milena in and who planned to bring her parents
to England as well. She spent six uncertain years waiting for her
parents and enduring her foster mother's complex ambivalence.
Milena learned only after the war that her parents were deported
from Czechoslovakia in July 1943 and died at Auschwitz. Whatever
the faults of Milena's guardian, she had been genuinely fond of
Milena's mother and preserved her old friend's letters. These she
gave to Milena, and they form the heart of this book. The first
letter dates from 1930; the last, written less than a year before
Milena's parents were captured and murdered, is heavy with "an air
of despairing farewell," an understanding that escape was no longer
possible. As an adult, Milena Roth spent many years piecing
together the fate of her family and making sense of her life. In
this book, drawing on her mother's poignant letters and on her own
memories and experiences, she recounts the challenges of
integrating, in adulthood, the wounds and bereavements of childhood
and of "regaining the confidence of my place in the universe that
had been lost."
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