The Post-Holocaust Correspondence of Chava Rosenfarb and Zenia Larsson

The Ghetto Fighters’ House invites you to a special Talking Memory conversation with acclaimed writer and translator Goldie Morgentaler as she presents her novel Letters from the Afterlife: The Post-Holocaust Correspondence of Chava Rosenfarb and Zenia Larsson.

Letters from the Afterlife tells the story of two women who survived the Holocaust and rebuilt their lives in countries whose language and culture were not their own – one in Canada, one in Sweden. Through the correspondence between them, the book traces what it meant to carry that past forward: the trauma, the alienation, and the quiet, persistent work of making a life.

Extraordinarily little has been written about how women survivors navigated the aftermath. This book is a rare exception.

The programme will feature:

Rochelle Saidel will open the conversation with reflections on the book as an intimate window into postwar women’s experience.

Goldie Morgentaler, writer, translator, and daughter of celebrated author and Holocaust survivor Chava Rosenfarb, will discuss the book, the correspondence at its heart, and what it means to write from inside inherited memory.

This event is presented in partnership with the Remember the Women Institute, the Rabin Chair Forum, the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, and Classrooms Without Borders.