Carefully preserved trove of letters sheds light on how one family survived the Holocaust

The six or seven boxes of carefully preserved documents – 10,000 pages in all – were hand-delivered to Timothy Taylor. The boxes contained an anguished family history shattered by the Holocaust, including details he never knew, and they came with a duty he wasn’t sure he could fulfill.Prof. Taylor, an award-winning writer and creative-writing professor at the University of British Columbia, was at home in Vancouver in 2019 when his sister arrived from Edmonton with the boxes.