A time of uncertainty

In transcribing my family’s correspondence, I find myself drawn into a dialogue with ancestors I never had the chance to meet. My family left Russia before the Revolution and later settled in Germany, where they lived through the aftermath of the First World War, the rise of Nazism, and then the Second World War.

This blog will initially focus on correspondence from the 1930s. These letters offer a window into life during the rise of Nazism, with echoes that still resonate today.