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A thousand kisses : a grandmother's Holocaust letters / translated and edited by Renata Polt.

by Pollatschek, Henriette, 1870-

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University of Alabama Press, c1999.

Pollatschek, Henriette, b. 1870 -- Correspondence.

Jews -- Persecutions -- Czech Republic.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Czech Republic -- Personal narratives.

Czech Republic -- Ethnic relations.

Judaic studies series.

9780817309305 (hc.)

0817309306 (hc.)

xvii, 210 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-210).

"Henriette Pollatschek was 69 years old when the Nazis marched into Prague, where she and her daughter had sought refuge after fleeing their German-held homeland in northern Bohemia. Henriette's son and his family had already escaped to Switzerland and later to Cuba and the United States. At each step of the way, her family urged Henriette to join them. But in the face of what was then only a vague and, to many, unbelievable threat of danger, she was unwilling to abandon her financial independence, her accustomed way of life, and the familial objects she had gathered over a lifetime. As living conditions for Jews worsened in Nazi-occupied Prague, however, Henriette began to have second thoughts. Her letters to her son and his family in Havana reveal an increasingly desperate situation as the obstacles to escape mounted while living conditions eroded. Ultimately both Henriette and her daughter perished"--Provided by publisher.

Polt, Renata, 1932-

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