Max Sussman deftly takes us step by step through the stages of his grandmother's personal Holocaust. In riveting detail, we learn from her postwar letters about her deportation, her suffering in Theresienstadt, her escape with 1,200 others in a "trade" agreed to by Himmler, and her immediate postwar struggles to learn the fate of family and friends and to emigrate to England. Despite Dora's miraculous rescue, her correspondence mourns profound...
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