Forgotten histories of the Holocaust
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The Death Marches and the Sub-Camps
A letter written by a German man to his grandson in 1938 is one of the few examples that we have of somebody really understanding the implication of what was happening in Germany in 1933. The fact that he never sent this letter, although it was written to his grandson, is also telling. There are many such letters of this sort where you see people trying to work out what's happening but this one I think is particularly clear in its assessment of what is going on. Some of the tales in particular that of Trudy Levy who became later famous as the author of Catcord Adolph and so on. It's in some ways typical of the trajectories of those who survived the Holocaust but
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