About this episode
After a career spent telling other people's stories, Eleanor Reissa has finally uncovered her own. It started with 56 letters she found in a drawer while cleaning out her late mother's apartment. They were letters from her father to her mother, just a few years after they had both survived World War II. The letters sent Eleanor on a search to retrace her family history in Europe, which she chronicles in her new memoir, The Letters Project: A Daughter's Journey . In this episode of Can We Talk? , Nahanni Rous talks with Eleanor about how her life has been defined by being the daughter of people who lived through the Holocaust.