Survivor Sheds Light on Divisive WWII-era Jewish Councils

Throughout the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam, and while incarcerated in two prison camps, Mirjam Bolle wrote letters to her fiance that she never sent but hoped to share with him after the war. Yet when the two ultimately reunited she decided to leave the past behind and stashed them away. Now, decades later, she has published them as a memoir.     The result is “Letters Never Sent,” 18 months of diary entries and observations that experts say shed new light on one of the...

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