Monday, January 26, 2015

Paper Love: Searching for the Girl My Grandfather Left Behind

by Sarah Wildman.  Review by Carl J. Rheins for jewishbookcouncil.org

Sarah Wildman, a reporter and European correspondent for The New York Times, Slate, The New Yorker, and other publications, has given us an elegantly written story that uses the life of medical doctor Valerie (Valy) Fabisch and her mother to illustrate the fate of hundreds of thousands of German, Austrian, and Czech Jews who were trapped in Nazi-occupied Central Europe and eventually deported to extermination camps in Poland.


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