Finding A Secret Family History, Piecing Together A Stranger

The Leonard Lopate Show | Dec 15, 2014

Years after her grandfather’s death, journalist Sarah Wildman stumbled upon a cache of family documents from prewar Vienna. One woman’s letters stood out: those from her grandfather’s true love. In Paper Love: Searching for the Girl My Grandfather Left Behind, Wildman pieces together this woman’s story, revealing a family’s secret seemingly lost to history. 

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