The Letters Project, Eleanor Reissa
The Letters Project, Eleanor Reissa
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The Letters Project
A Daughter's Journey

Author: Eleanor Reissa

Narrator: Eleanor Reissa

Unabridged: 10 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/18/2022

Synopsis

In 1986, when her mother died at the age of sixty-four, Eleanor Reissa went through all of her belongings. In the back of her mother’s lingerie drawer, she found an old leather purse. Inside that purse was a large wad of folded papers. They were letters. Fifty-six of them. In German. Written in 1949. Letters from her father to her mother, when they were courting. Just four years earlier, he had fought to stay alive in Auschwitz and on the Death March while she had spent the war years suffering in Uzbekistan. Thirty years later, Eleanor—a theatre artist who has been on the forefront of keeping Yiddish alive—finally had the letters translated. The particulars of those letters send her off on an unimaginable adventure into the past, forever changing her and anyone who reads this book.

About Eleanor Reissa

Eleanor Reissa is Brooklyn born and bred, and attended public schools from kindergarten through college. She is a Tony-nominated director, a Broadway and television actress, a prize-winning playwright, a former artistic director of the world’s oldest Yiddish theater, and a singer who has performed in every major venue in New York City and in festivals around the world. She is a storyteller in English and Yiddish and is the daughter of parents who were Holocaust fighters.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Deborah

I finished reading Eleanor Reissa’s book, The Letters Project: A Daughter’s Journey, several days ago. I am rarely at a loss for words, but after finishing the book, I had to take time to process what I had read. I too, am the daughter of Holocaust survivors and started learning about the Holocaust......more

Goodreads review by Sara

Eleanor Reissa, whom I've known as a singer and enjoyed in concert, has now written a phenomenal book. When I saw the title of this book, I was immediately drawn to it as someone of roughly the same age and someone who has also discovered letters when cleaning out my deceased mother's apartment. Rei......more

Goodreads review by M.

Eleanor Reissa, the author of this engrossing book is a well-known Yiddish singer and actress on the Yiddish stage. She has also appeared in several Broadway productions and was nominated for A Tony Award as a director. I’ve known her for, I guess about 55 years since she and my sister were good fri......more

Goodreads review by Robert

It is hard to find words to praise Eleanor Reissa enough for her courage to expose and share an intensely personal story that so captures the cruelty endured by those who fought to live through the Holocaust. What Eleanor's father and mother hid from her, to protect her, perhaps, arrives in her life......more

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