Story! Gate A4, and Letters

[sonia]

I might have posted this one before. Anyway I've read it before. About making connections. And kindness.
Gate A4 by Naomi Shihab Nye

And on a somber note (I cried and cried)
Noon Time Talk: Dearest Children, Letters from the Holocaust 1938-1941.
Scroll to October 14, 2020 if there are more events on top.

View the recording of Emanuel and Regine Loew’s grandson Robert Lowe and translators Ingrid Preston and Christoph Stauder for a fascinating conversation about this instructive collection of 168 letters, what they reveal about life in Vienna before and after Kristallnacht, about family connection across great distance, and about the process of translation. The letters also chronicle the family’s years of struggle with the United States immigration system – a struggle that they lost, and a struggle with direct relevance to events in the US today.

Comments

[batdina]

It's an amazing story, isn't it? I read and reread it regularly.

How are you on this ominous day?

[sonia]

Yes, such a warm scene, delivered to us perfectly, as if fresh out of the oven.

Also I added a link you might be interested in, but maybe not today.

I am... waiting. So far it's not that different from other days. I am very conscious of the last drips of not-knowing, and how they might be better than what comes after, as uncomfortable as it has been. That's the hardest part, not enduring now, but fearing things getting worse instead of better.

How about you?

[batdina]

Ooh! I know Robert Lowe, actually. How wild. I'll listen/watch. Soonish. But definitely not today.

[sonia]

Wow, tiny world. I went on a group bike ride a couple of years ago that included Christoph Stauder and he's a lovely person.