Номер объектаM2009/098:005
ОписаниеCollection of 31 letters dated 1955, 7 telegrams, 6 photographs and 1 letter from the US Escapee Program Division dated 1956. Written by Felix Gryff to his wife Halina Gryff and his son Stefan, during his incarceration in the Gulag. They were sent from the Karaganda region of Kazakhstan which was a Republic of the Soviet Union, to No 6 University Street, apartment No 9 Warsaw, Poland. Some of the letters are responses back to him from his mother and his wife.
The collection was donated by Yola Schneider (nee Rawdin). Feliks Gryff was her mother’s brother, a Polish Jew arrested as a spy in 1943 and deported to the Russian Gulag for 12 years. Stefan was two years old at the time of his father’s arrest. Felix immigrated to Australia in 1956. Many of the letters contain pressed flowers. Incomplete accession. Needs translation - Polish to English.
The collection was donated by Yola Schneider (nee Rawdin). Feliks Gryff was her mother’s brother, a Polish Jew arrested as a spy in 1943 and deported to the Russian Gulag for 12 years. Stefan was two years old at the time of his father’s arrest. Felix immigrated to Australia in 1956. Many of the letters contain pressed flowers. Incomplete accession. Needs translation - Polish to English.
Дата 1955
Наименованиеletters
Язык
- Polish
Кредитная линияSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Mrs Yola Schneider