voices From Vilna Paperback -

To My Great Joy, IFound Poignant Letters In My Family Home Describing My Fathers And His Familys Life And Current Events From To In Vilnius, LithuaniaOn ARoots Trip There In , The Letters Were Shown To The Director Of The Vilna Gaon Museum Who Thought Them ValuableVoices Is ACreative, Nonfiction Memoir Told From The Perspective Of AFirst Generation ChildThe Letters Are Arranged Chronologically, Interspersed With Letters To My Father Telling Him What IFoundSadly, New Photographs Show Evidence Of Ongoing AntisemitismIWrote This Story As AMemorial To The Letter WritersChapter One Contains Love Letters To My Mother From My FatherIt Also Describes His Desperate Attempts To Leave The CountryChapter Two Shows How Hard My Father Tried To Get Some Of His Family Out, Especially His Sister Married To ARabbiRabbis Were Targets Of OppressionChapter Three Illustrates How Difficult Life Became In Vilna Even Before The HolocaustIt Was ACry For HelpThey Knew What Was Coming, Yet Kept Hope AliveIm Glad My Father Could Not Go Back With Me Because The Experience Would Have Been Too Painful For Him'