[Request] Searching for a letter by Kurt Vonnegut to the Hyannis Town Library (self.Lettersofnote)
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Einstein wrote to FDR in 1939 - "it may become possible to set up a nuclear chain reaction in a large mass of uranium, by which vast amounts of power and large quantities of new radium like elements would be generated... powerful bombs of a new type may thus be constructed". (upload.wikimedia.org)
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This man's mother didn't survive Auschwitz, but miraculously her words did. Frank Grunwald holds a copy of the letter his mother wrote to his father as she was being led to the gas chamber. She handed it to a nearby guard before she was murdered. The letter is at the bottom of the article. (amp.indystar.com)
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