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The tower of life: How Yaffa Eliach rebuilt her town in stories and photographs

Yaffa loved helping her Grandma Alte in her photography studio in Poland. Many people had their photographs made during special events and celebrations, then they were mailed overseas to relatives before the Jewish New Year. After the Holocaust when 3500 Jewish souls were murdered by Nazi soldiers, Yaffa worked for 17 years to recover 6000 photographs and stories about people from Eishyshok, which is now a different town in Lithuania. Yaffa became a professor of history who rebuilt the lives of those lost by connecting with their loved one's photographs from six continents.

Stiefel, Chana

Scholastic Press

2022

978-1-338-22589-1

New York

Abstract provided by Valerie Ubbes, 2023