Letters from Prague: 1939-1941

Correspondence documenting a Jewish family's personal history of the Holocaust and World War II.

Raya Schapiro and Helga Weinberg found a box of letters among their mother's effects after her death in 1990. They were written by their grandmother and uncle, trapped in Prague after the Nazi occupation, to the girls' parents who had escaped to the United States in May, 1939, leaving behind Raya and Helga, who were five and seven years old at the time.

The seventy-seven letters reprinted here sp...