Stay healthy. Send parcels': relief in the Warsaw ghetto
Title' Stay healthy. Send parcels': relief in the Warsaw ghetto
Author
Call number940.5318/0584
Object number11385i
Place of publicationDetroit, Michigan, United States
PublisherWayne State University Press.
Year of publication
2022
Physical descriptionpp.257-275
MaterialArticle
NotesArticle from the book 'More than parcels' pp 257-275
Description
Follows the extensive correspondence of two families to illustrate how aid and news reached the Warsaw ghetto from the world outside. Despite strict censorship, a ghetto postal service continued to pass letters and tens of thousands of parcels to residents in the year before the mass deportations of residents to Treblinka. Advances our understanding of the long reach of the Holocaust and of family ties in a time of existential distress