✉️ Correspondence shows how families exchanged messages across borders, in defiance and in the midst of chaos and destruction – and how much they understood about the genocide unfolding
Secret letters from the Holocaust reveal defiance in the midst of chaos: ‘Be brave and cope’
Dr Leibetseder, writing from inside the concentration camp, was right to be so cautious. Another of her notes indicates how closely they were being monitored – a surgical gap in the paper is where scissors excised a section lost to history, but which clearly gave too much away., a new exhibition at London’s Wiener Holocaust Library, which reveals how much Jews understood was happening to them as the genocide unfolded in Nazi Germany.
That the letters have survived – to become precious symbols of what was lost – is almost its own miracle. Paper was in such short supply that one was reused as a list for packing a suitcase. Another has unexplained burn marks. A third is written around an unreferred-to sketch of a bearded man, thought to be the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche., drew a picture of herself receiving flowers on the reverse of a letter she had been sent by her mother, and posted it onwards to her cousin, Alfinko.
Michał’s son, Grant Rechnic, says the letter he finds most moving “by a country mile”, and which “upset me quite deeply”, is the response from Stella and Bernard to the first message they had received in six months.. “Then, all of a sudden, a postcard arrives out of the blue. They must have run their fingers along the print because it was their son’s handwriting. They must have smelled it. This is tangible proof that their only child was still alive.
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