Stay healthy. Send parcels': relief in the Warsaw ghetto
Título' Stay healthy. Send parcels': relief in the Warsaw ghetto
Autor
Call number940.5318/0584
Número del objeto11385i
Lugar de publicaciónDetroit, Michigan, United States
EditorialWayne State University Press.
Año de publicación
2022
Paginaciónpp.257-275
MaterialArticle
NotesArticle from the book 'More than parcels' pp 257-275
Descripción
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