Object numberM2012/010:132
DescriptionTyped letter from Julius Fleischhacker, Bratislava to Moritz (Moci) Kohn, Theresienstadt, Block L407, dated 21 July 1943. Gyula (Julius) asks for news about friends or relatives, who may be in Theresienstadt. Julius has sent and will send more parcels & tells Moci that they are "well off". Zsiga has gone on holidays, which is a strange fact during the war and could be a coded message, which could mean that Zsiga went into hiding.
Rich archive of personal correspondence is a significant part of the Eva Gertler’s Collection of Moric Kohn’s Theresienstadt documents in SJM. Some 50 postcards are moving witnesses to the joy of receiving news from those still outside the ghetto, as well as the anguish and pain of close family members and friends when no news was forthcoming and a worrying silence took place. Bearing many postal censorship and rubber stamps the mail also documents the story of regimented and often restricted postal system operated under the Nazi occupation in Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and Tiso’s Slovakia. Further, from numerous date stamps we can also establish that it often took several months for mail to reach its destination in Theresienstadt. Not only we have a date of writing the letter, there usually is a date of posting, together with a large, undated, red circle stamp of Nazi eagle and swastika confirming that letter or postcard was checked by the ‘Oberkommando der Wehrmacht’ (High Command of the Armed Forces).
Rich archive of personal correspondence is a significant part of the Eva Gertler’s Collection of Moric Kohn’s Theresienstadt documents in SJM. Some 50 postcards are moving witnesses to the joy of receiving news from those still outside the ghetto, as well as the anguish and pain of close family members and friends when no news was forthcoming and a worrying silence took place. Bearing many postal censorship and rubber stamps the mail also documents the story of regimented and often restricted postal system operated under the Nazi occupation in Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and Tiso’s Slovakia. Further, from numerous date stamps we can also establish that it often took several months for mail to reach its destination in Theresienstadt. Not only we have a date of writing the letter, there usually is a date of posting, together with a large, undated, red circle stamp of Nazi eagle and swastika confirming that letter or postcard was checked by the ‘Oberkommando der Wehrmacht’ (High Command of the Armed Forces).
Object nameletters
Materialpaper
Dimensions
- width: 210.00 mm
height: 198.00 mm
Language
Credit lineSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Eva Gertler