In "Letter to Mother", Bela Winkens writes to her mother, who was murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp and whom she never really got to know. She tells her about her childhood, her memories of the Theresienstadt concentration camp, which she survived as a four-year-old, and how she learned to deal with the pain and grief in the course of her life as a survivor.Bela Winkens was born Bela Heymann in Berlin on February 5, 1941. Her grandparents and parents were deported to concentration camps in 1942 and 1943 respectively and murdered. Before that, her grandfather brought her to relatives in the Ruhr region and in June 1943 she was placed in a Catholic children's home in Bochum. The home was bombed the following night and Bela, who was presumably anonymous, was evacuated with the other children. She remained in North Hesse as "Elisabeth", but her identity was discovered and she was taken to the Jewish hospital in Berlin, from where she was deported to Theresienstadt. In 1946, a couple took her in in Düsseldorf and adopted her. In the mid-fifties, she played the role of Anne Frank in a play in nearby Holland, after graduating from high school she completed an acting course in Berlin and then worked as an actress. In 1996, she was able to write down these memoirs as a letter, which is now being published for the first time.