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This copy letter in Yiddish with English translation was addressed to the father of the depositor, and describes the fate of the depositor's mother, who survived the Warsaw ghetto only to be murdered at Majdanek.
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GB 1556 WL 1342 1946 Collection level (fonds) 1 file Cymerman , Hela , fl 1946
This copy letter in Yiddish with English translation was addressed to the father of the depositor, and describes the fate of the depositor's mother, who survived the Warsaw ghetto only to be murdered at Majdanek.
Wlodka Robertson.
Copy letter from Hela Cymerman to Lucjan Blit describes the fate of the depositor's mother, who survived the Warsaw ghetto only to be murdered at Majdanek concentration camp, Poland.
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Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.
Yiddish and English
Description exists to this archive on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk
Entry compiled by Howard Falksohn.
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
February 2008 Blit , Lucjan , d 1978 , journalist and political scientist Communication process Communication skills Cymerman , Hela , fl 1946 Eastern Europe Family Genocide Holocaust Humanitarian law Kinship Letter writing Majdanek concentration camp Poland Racial discrimination Racial segregation War crimes Warsaw Writing
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Wlodka Robertson.
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Copy letter from Hela Cymerman to Lucjan Blit describes the fate of the depositor's mother, who survived the Warsaw ghetto only to be murdered at Majdanek concentration camp, Poland.
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Original order.
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Open
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Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.
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- English
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- Latin
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Yiddish and English
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Description exists to this archive on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk
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- Communication process
- Communication process » Communication skills
- Family
- Humanitarian law » War crimes » Genocide
- Humanitarian law
- Family » Kinship
- Interethnic relations » Ethnic discrimination » Racial segregation
- Humanitarian law » War crimes
- Communication process » Communication skills » Writing
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Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
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- English