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245 00 Letters from Prague, 1939-1941|h[Hoopla electronic 
       resource]. 
264  1 [United States] :|bChicago Review Press,|c2014. 
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520    Their discovery of a box of letters to America sent from 
       relatives in Prague led two sisters to compile this 
       extraordinary collection. Raya Schapiro and Helga Weinberg
       found the 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 the two girls behind. The 77 letters 
       reprinted here span a period of two years, during which 
       the Nazis drew an ever-tightening noose of destruction 
       around the Jews of Prague: each letter is followed by 
       notes of explanation and amplification, as well as notes 
       on Nazi laws, official restrictions, and the progress of 
       the war. The early letters deal with the difficulties of 
       getting the two small girls out to join their parents in 
       America. After that is accomplished, the grandmother and 
       uncle concentrate on their own prospects for immigration, 
       and they struggle to maintain a normal life while hope 
       slips steadily away. Each letter has a censor's stamp on 
       it; each envelope bears the still frightening emblem of 
       the Third Reich. The letters dramatically convey the 
       tension, growing daily, of existence under the Nazis, and 
       their tone becomes increasingly desperate as every avenue 
       of escape reaches a dead end. Reading Letters from Prague 
       is a moving experience, because it makes tangible a time 
       in history so cruel as to be almost surreal. A rich legacy
       of bygone European Jewish life is maintained in this book,
       and Schapiro and Weinberg-a psychiatrist, retired teacher 
       respectively-now grandparents themselves, can point to an 
       invaluable record of human suffering, and show the world 
       that their voices, and those of their ancestors, cannot be
       silenced. 
538    Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
650  0 Jews|zCzech Republic|zPrague|vCorrespondence. 
650  0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)|zCzech Republic|zPrague
       |vSources. 
650  0 Electronic books. 
651  0 Prague (Czech Republic)|xEthnic relations. 
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