Stay healthy. Send parcels': relief in the Warsaw ghetto
Titel' Stay healthy. Send parcels': relief in the Warsaw ghetto
Auteur
Call number940.5318/0584
Objectnummer11385i
Plaats van uitgaveDetroit, Michigan, United States
UitgeverWayne State University Press.
Jaar van uitgave
2022
Pagina'spp.257-275
MateriaalArtikel
NotesArticle from the book 'More than parcels' pp 257-275
Beschrijving
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