Join us as we commemorate Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day with a Candle lighting ceremony and interview between Eleanor Reissa author of The Letters Project: A Daughter’s Journey and Rabbi Samantha Frank. In 1986, upon the death of her mother, Eleanor Reissa — an acclaimed actress, singer, director, writer, and contemporary Yiddish performer — was stunned to discover a stash of 56 letters written in German, hidden inside an old leather purse she had never seen before. The discovery of this correspondence, from her father to her mother, dating back to 1949, was a proverbial Pandora’s Box, launching her on a quest that spanned continents and decades and led to truths about her late father, a survivor of Auschwitz, whom she had only known as an ailing, broken man. It was not until 2018 — forty years later — that she had the letters translated.