Tigermedia - Holding On Through Letters: Jewish Families During the Holocaust
Holding On Through Letters: Jewish Families During the Holocaust
Date: April 26th, 2015
Duration:
1h:18m:34s
Lecture by Dr. Deborah Dwork of Clark University. Jewish families in Nazi Europe tried to hold onto each other through letters, but wartime conditions applied. Letters were censored and could not be sent between countries at war. How did families keep in contact with each other? And, if contact was able to be established, what could they say and what to remain silent? In her presentation Dr. Dwork will explain the ingenious ways people bypassed the censors, and she will trace how letters became threads stitching loved ones into each other's constantly changing daily lives.