Holocaust - History, Children & Childhood, World War II, Historical Figures - Biography
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Overview
Like Anne Frank's diary, these letters are a true document of war, imbued with a touching immediacy. Papaleo's amusingly illustrated letters to his daughter are filled with charming tales about such things as holidays, a bird that doesn't like vanilla ice cream, a funny dream he had after eating bean soup. Writing not about battles and politics but about children being separated from their parents, what a soldier's day is like, and what he sees in the cities he passes through, Leo Meter provided for his daughter and for those who read this remarkable correspondence a view of war that combines a profound sense of loss with a promise for a better and happier future.A father's moving letters to his young daughter during World War II are not about battles and politics, but about children being separated from their parents and what a soldier's day is like and what his meals are like and what he sees in the cities he passes through. Meter provides for his daughter and the reader a sense of loss and a promise for better times to come.
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Leo Meter, a Socialist, was a Christian German national married to a Jewish woman. They lived in Holland where Leo worked with the Dutch resistance until arrested, when he was sent to fight for the Germans in the Ukraine (where, it is reported, he shot his gun into the air). These are his letters and drawings, filled with funny, happy things, sent from the front, to his daughter Barbara who never saw him again. A view of the war that combines a profound sense of loss with a promise for a better and happier future.Book Details
Published
November 18, 1996
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pages
62
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780879515898