Paper Love

Years after her grandfather's death, journalist Sarah Wildman stumbled upon a cache of his letters in a file labeled "Correspondence. Patients A–G." What she found inside weren't dry medical histories, instead what was written opened a path into the destroyed world that was her family's prewar Vienna. One woman's letters stood out, those from Valy-Valerie Scheftel. Her grandfather's lover who had remained behind when he fled Europe six months after the Nazis annexed Austria.