Stay healthy. Send parcels': relief in the Warsaw ghetto
Titel' Stay healthy. Send parcels': relief in the Warsaw ghetto
Verfasser
Call number940.5318/0584
Inventarnummer11385i
ErscheinungsortDetroit, Michigan, United States
Erscheinungsjahr
2022
Seitenpp.257-275
MaterialArtikel
NotesArticle from the book 'More than parcels' pp 257-275
Beschreibung
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