Advertisement Continue reading the main story“The letters were a bit shaky, but they were unmistakably O-L-A,” the other prisoner later recalled in a memoir. “It was the best day I had had in prison — and the hardest,” the prisoner wrote. To whatever extent Masha Leon was a historical footnote, her own exodus had barely begun. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyAfter arriving in Seattle, they spent the rest of the war in Canada and were supposed to be repatriated to Poland in 1945. But after Masha wrote a 13-page personal plea to Eleanor Roosevelt, the president’s wife, the American consul granted them visas.

Source: New York Times April 07, 2017 19:44 UTC