A Grandson Found His Grandfather’s Manuscript Decades Later. What He Found Was History.
Some family stories are passed down through conversation. Others survive in photographs, letters or keepsakes. In the case of UNDER THE RED SHADOW: An Autobiographical Memoir of Childhood Lost to Soviet Deportation, one family’s history survived in a much more fragile form: handwritten pages hidden away for decades. The memoir was written by Vilis Bērziņš, … Read more