Stay healthy. Send parcels': relief in the Warsaw ghetto
Titre' Stay healthy. Send parcels': relief in the Warsaw ghetto
Auteur
Call number940.5318/0584
N° d'objet11385i
Lieu de publicationDetroit, Michigan, United States
Année de publication
2022
Paginationpp.257-275
MatérielArticle
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