Elizabeth Frankenberger
By Elizabeth Frankenberger
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Culture Fateful Correspondence
Paper Kisses: A True Love Story By Reinhard Kaiser Translated by Anthea Bell Other Press, 120 pages, $13.95. * * *| Like Reinhard Kaiser, the author of “Paper Kisses” — a true, epistolary tale of two star-crossed lovers during the Holocaust — my father was a collector of stamps. And like Kaiser, his hobby was…
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Culture Anne Frank Forever
Anne Frank died in 1945 at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany. June 12, 2004, would have been her 75th birthday. When I first read Anne Frank’s diary I was not yet 13 years old. Jewish tradition dictated that I was on the verge of adulthood, but I knew I had a long way to…
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