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  • The Letters Project

  • A Daughter's Journey
  • By: Eleanor Reissa
  • Narrated by: Eleanor Reissa
  • Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
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The Letters Project

By: Eleanor Reissa
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In 1986, when her mother died at the age of 64, Eleanor Reissa went through all of her belongings. In the back of her mother’s lingerie drawer, she found an old leather purse. Inside that purse was a large wad of folded papers. They were letters. Fifty-six of them. In German. Written in 1949. Letters from her father to her mother, when they were courting.

Just four years earlier, he had fought to stay alive in Auschwitz and on the Death March while she had spent the war years suffering in Uzbekistan. Thirty years later, Eleanor — a theatre artist who has been on the forefront of keeping Yiddish alive — finally had the letters translated. The particulars of those letters send her off on an unimaginable adventure into the past, forever changing her and anyone who listens to this book.

©2022 Eleanor Reissa (P)2022 Dreamscape Media, LLC
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Wonderful and powerful

An incredible and important story of Eleanor’s family - I am recommending this far and wide.

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It'll stay with me

I've read memoirs before about women and their parents, about 'second generation' (children of survivors of the Holocaust), or about solving mysteries and searching for answers.... but this book is all of the above all at once and by far the most compelling. And the audiobook, with the author's thoroughly engaging narration .... it's like she's telling you the story over coffee at the corner cafe.

The emotions are overwhelming....as you'd expect from a memoir like this. But then the moments sprinkled throughout the tale of wry humor.... perfect. (At one point when I laughed out loud and my husband, across the room, said in confusion, "I thought you were listening to a Holocaust memoir?" I couldn't explain. But you know what, when the author/narrator laughs with you.... it's okay to laugh, really. Cathartic, even.)

There's even a Bob Dylan cameo.

Seriously, listen to the audiobook. I imagine that reading it is also wonderful, but the audiobook narration is just next level.

I was surprised at how it left me with a deeper empathy for my own parents, and at the same time an overwhelming compassion for myself, for my own behavior through the last years of my parents' lives, and for the ignorance we all have about our parents' inner lives....

Anyway. Highly recommended. One of the few audiobooks that I look forward to listening to again.


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Fantastic!!

What an amazing book. I couldn’t stop listening to it. So many different emotions to be felt.

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Great story artfully narrated

A wonderful, sad, moving story I narrated by the author. Her voice and her story remained with me long after finishing the audiobook. Don’t miss this!

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