The Lost Letter by Jillian Cantor
In Austria, Kristoff, a street artist, leaves Vienna for a small town of Grotsburg as soon as he learns about Frederick Faber, known for engraving throughout Austria, is looking for a new apprentice. Once orphan, now with Faber’s family, he finds warmth he’s never known and cherishes it dearly. But his happiness is shaken when Germans enter and annex Austria.
In Los Angeles, Katie reminiscence on her childhood spent with her father searching thrift shops and yard sales for stamps every week. Once her father is at a nursing home losing his short memory to Alzheimer, she takes his stamp collection to a stamp dealer to have it appraised. When the appraiser finds a letter with an unusual stamp, it puts them both on a search for two Faber girls.
This story doesn’t go through WWII, but it brings not much known aspect of how creative resistance groups had to get to pass messages. It involved communication through poems by changing words and later by stamps.
“A heartbreaking, heartwarming historical novel of love and survival inspired by real resistance workers during WWII in Austria, and the mysterious love letter that connects generations of Jewish families.”
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