hours after: letters of love and longing in War's aftermath

Over fifty years ago, Gerda Weissmann was barely alive at the end of a 350 mile death march that took her from a slave-labor camp in Germany to the Czech border. On May 7 1945, the American military stormed the area and among the first soldiers to approach Gerda was Kurt Klein. Forced to separate just weeks after liberation and hours after their engagement, Gerda and Kurt began a correspondence that lasted until their wedding in Paris a year later. Their poignant letters reflect upon the horrors of war and genocide but above all upon the rapture and salvation of true love