Номер объектаM2015/004:016b
ОписаниеLetter from the Red Cross Bureau for Wounded, Missing and Prisoners of War to Leonie Oppenheim, dated 18th April 1944 and signed by the hon. director Bernard R. Riley. In this letter they inform Leonie that the Central Bureau, Melbourne has received the enclosed message from the Short Wave section of the Department of Information as coming over the Saigon Radio.
The enclosed message is as follows: "Darling I am in good health. Don’t worry I am troubled about you. Hope you are alright. All my love. Four Fitz."
Leonard Aron Oppenheim was the first husband of Leonie Hirschberg who later became Leonie Hilton. Leonie left Berlin in 1938 in order to escape the Nazi regime. They met and got married in Singapore. Leonard Aron Oppenheim was born in Harbin, Russia, of Jewish origin. He was an engineer and architect in Singapore which was controlled by Britain. When war started he joined the British Volunteer Corps. The Japanese conquered Singapore in February 1942. Leonie was evacuated and ended up in Sydney. Leonard was captured and put to work. He became a prisoner (N° 13753) of war and was moved from Singapore to a camp in Kuching, Sarawak, on the island of Borneo in March 1943. There Leonard died in 1945. The cause of his death was officially given as malaria and beriberi.
Between 1942 and 1945, Leonie and Leonard managed to make contact in an exchange of telegrams, letters, postcards and broadcast messages.
The enclosed message is as follows: "Darling I am in good health. Don’t worry I am troubled about you. Hope you are alright. All my love. Four Fitz."
Leonard Aron Oppenheim was the first husband of Leonie Hirschberg who later became Leonie Hilton. Leonie left Berlin in 1938 in order to escape the Nazi regime. They met and got married in Singapore. Leonard Aron Oppenheim was born in Harbin, Russia, of Jewish origin. He was an engineer and architect in Singapore which was controlled by Britain. When war started he joined the British Volunteer Corps. The Japanese conquered Singapore in February 1942. Leonie was evacuated and ended up in Sydney. Leonard was captured and put to work. He became a prisoner (N° 13753) of war and was moved from Singapore to a camp in Kuching, Sarawak, on the island of Borneo in March 1943. There Leonard died in 1945. The cause of his death was officially given as malaria and beriberi.
Between 1942 and 1945, Leonie and Leonard managed to make contact in an exchange of telegrams, letters, postcards and broadcast messages.
Дата
ТемаHolocaust, survivors, Jews in Australia, loved ones' contact, Japanese occupation, prisoners of war
Наименованиеletters
Размерность
- width: 210.00 mm
height: 60.00 mm
width: 210.00 mm
height: 170.00 mm
Язык
- English
Кредитная линияSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Jeffrey Hilton