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Joshua and Isadora: A True Tale of Loss and Love in the Holocaust
Joshua and Isadora A True Tale of Loss and Love in the Holocaust Author:Michael Benanav Traveling through Ukraine, Romania, and Turkey, award-winning travel writer Michael Benanav documents the incredible story of his grandmother Isadora, who was deported from Romania along with hundreds of thousands of other Jews to the neighboring region of Transnistria. Near the end of the Nazi occupation, Isa returned. But soon she emigrated to... more » Palestineaboard a ship on which she met the author’s grandfather, Joshua. Drawing on letters that chronicle their love affair, the birth of the Zionist movement, and the resurgence of Jewish writers in Europe, Benanov weaves a beautiful tapestrya wrenching story of loss and love in the Holocaust.« less