Kasimir Knapczyk Auschwitz letter, 1941

Identifier
irn36395
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2008.260.1
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn36395

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of David Heck

David Heck donated this collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Nov. 11, 2008. He purchased the document in order to donate it to the Museum.

Scope and Content

Consists of one letter, written by Polish prisoner Kasimir Knapczyk on February 9, 1941, while he was imprisoned in the Auschwitz concentration camp. In the letter, written on camp stationery, he thanks his family for their letter and asks for more news. Mr. Knapcyzk, who had prisoner number 709, perished in Auschwitz on August 8, 1941.

Subjects

  • Concentration camps--Poland--Oświęcim.

Genre

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