"BEla's Letters" is an historical fiction novel based on the life of BEla Ingber. BEla was born before the onset of WWI in MunkAcs, a small city nestled in the Carpathian Mountains that belonged to the democratic nation of Czechoslovakia until being occupied by fascist Hungary and then by German forces during WW II. BEla and his family were part of an extraordinary Jewish community, known for both its religious fervor and its Zionist movement, that had thrived for centuries until being eradicated less than a year before the end of the war.

The book spans the years from...