Tigermedia - No Road For Me To Africa: WWII Berman Family Letters
No Road For Me To Africa: WWII Berman Family Letters
Date: May 14th, 2015
Duration:
1h:11m:41s
Join us as Barbara Rothman discusses her book, a compilation of nineteen letters, postcards and notes translated from Yiddish and Polish, documenting life and correspondence of the Bermans, a Jewish family of tailors in Warsaw during the Second World War. Barbara’s father, Julius Berman, his parents and five siblings. The letters begin in the summer of 1938 when Eva, one of his sisters, leaves Poland for Johannesburg, South Africa for an arranged marriage. Eva secretly kept these letters for 70 years, and her surviving daughter, Lillian, found them upon Eva’s death at age 100 in New Zealand. Of the family of eight - two parents and six children - only four remained alive after the holocaust.