Bart van Es and Belinda Gergel | In what would prove to be perhaps the most poignant moment of the 2019 Charleston to Charleston Literary Festival, Bart van Es read aloud the letter written by a mother to her daughter, moments before the mother was deported to a Nazi concentration camp. As he recounted the journey he took to find out the history of a little girl his family sheltered during the Holocaust, we all learned a thing or two about the endurance of family and, especially, love.