An Unforeseen Legacy: Letters from our German-Jewish Grandparents: 1940-1941

In summer 2021, Monica returned to the family home for the first time since her mother Harriet’ s death. In the interval, the family had found a folder containing 120 pages of letters from her grandparents in Nazi Germany. Harriet had never mentioned the correspondence, or at least not to her children.

The letters spanned the period from October 1940 to November 1941. They sparked an intense rush of emotion, and Monica decided to translate them. In the process, she began to dig deeper, turni...