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The Boy Left Behind: A Crate, Five Letters, One Vanished Name
The Boy Left Behind: A Crate, Five Letters, One Vanished Name
Cold frost, an empty three-mile loop, and a fifty-eight-year-old shipping label led to a wooden crate that held a photographic record of a child everyone else had erased - a photograph labeled "Dov, 1965" and five Lithuanian letters dated 1961-1967. Why did Irena Vasik Thompson keep that picture and then never speak the name Dov aloud again?
In this episode, we follow how a runner found a crate behind the Dunmore co-op on December 4, 2019, and how the contents - ledger books, a ship manifest, forty-one negatives and a clutch of…
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