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The Letters
November 25, 2008 | Kathryn Mobley
Miki Felsenburg is an associate law professor at Wake Forest University. Upon the discovery of 3 letters from her deceased grandparents, she began a journey that answers from her childhood. The letters were written in 1941 during World War II by people she had never met.
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Miki is the decendent of Austrian Jews and her parents are Holocaust survivors. But her parents never shared their story with her.
Helga Welsh is an associate political science professor at Wake Forest University. Her father served in Adolf Hitler's German Nazi army. Growing up in Germany; neither of her parents talked about their lives during World War II.
Now Miki and Helga have unlocked some of the secrets surrounding Miki's family with the help of three fragile letters. And in the process, these ladies realized both grew up in the shadow of silence.
Today, Miki Felsenburg continues learning about her Austrian relatives killed during the Holocaust.
Helga Welsh's mother is 95 and still lives in Germany. Helga is in the process of becoming a U.S. citizen.
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