Letter written by the Holocaust survivor Shimon Mokobocki from Rochester to the New York Forverts newspaper on the destruction of a Jewish community in a town near Warsaw in 1942, 25 September 1949

Identifier

5595908

Language of Description

English

Alt. Identifiers

O.22/4.4

Level of Description

File

Languages

Yiddish

Source

EHRI Partner

Web Source

http://collections1.yadvashem.org/notebook_ext.asp?site=sapir&item=5595908&lang=ENG&menu=1

Extent and Medium

Handwritten, original

5 pages/frames

Acquisition

submitted by: רחל אוירבך

Scope and Content

Letter written by the Holocaust survivor Shimon Mokobocki from Rochester to the New York Forverts newspaper on the destruction of a Jewish community in a town near Warsaw in 1942, 25 September 1949 The events which transpired to a Jewish community in a town near Warsaw days before its destruction; the burning of the Jewish community in the town by Germans on Tuesday during the intermediate days of Sukkot.

Subjects

Descriptions of extermination
Emigrants
Holocaust survivors
Jewish press

Places

New York,<>,New York,United States
<>,<>,Warszawa,Poland

Genre

Letter

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מכתב שכתב ניצול השואה שמעון מאקאבאצקי מ-Rochester ארצות הברית ב-25 בספטמבר 1949 לעיתון פארווערטס ב-New York על קורות חיסול קהילה יהודית בעיירה ליד Warszawa ב-1942