Sid Jacobson Jewish Community Center will host author Sarah Wildman on Thursday, April 14 at 10:30 a.m. to discuss her book “Paper Love” as part of the JCC’s Author Breakfast and Book Signing series.
Journalist Sarah Wildman discovered a box of letters labeled “Correspondence: Patients A-G” years after her grandfather’s death.
The letters from Valerie “Valy” Scheftel stood out. Valy was her grandfather’s lover who had remained behind when he fled Europe six months after the Nazis annexed Austria. Her letters revealed the story of a woman desperate to escape and clinging to the memory of a love that defined her years of freedom.
Obsessed with Valy’s story, Wildman began a quest that lasted years and spanned continents and helped reexamine the story of story of her grandfather’s escape from Europe in this moving memoir.
Tickets are $40 for Sid Jacobson JCC members and $50 for non-members and can be purchased at www.sjjcc.org.
