: His ship is torpedoed during the crossing, and he believes his entire family—and his new wife back in Prague—have perished. He eventually reaches New York, becomes a successful obstetrician, and remarries, though he carries the "lost wife" of his youth like a ghost in his heart.
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In pre-war Prague, art student and medical student Josef fall into a swift, golden romance that feels as eternal as the city's ancient spires . They marry just as the Nazi shadow stretches over Czechoslovakia, but their honeymoon is cut short by a brutal reality: Josef’s family has secured passage to America, but Lenka refuses to leave her own parents and sister behind. A Lifetime Apart : His ship is torpedoed during the crossing,