The lost wife

At the rehearsal dinner in New York for his grandson’s wedding, eighty-five-year-old Josef recognizes the grandmother of the bride as Lenka, the woman he married sixty-one years ago in Prague just as the Nazis were about to invade their country. Josef was told by the Red Cross that Lenka had been gassed in Auschwitz. Lenka had read in the newspaper that everyone in Josef’s family perished when their ship bound for Canada was torpedoed by a German U-boat off the coast of Ireland.