Jan Dubsky letter
Extent and Medium
folder
1
Creator(s)
- Jan Dubsky
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Ladislav Wister
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Written by Jan Dubsky at Theresienstadt in 1941. Mailed to his grandmother (mother of donor) in Slovakia. Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1997 by Ladislav Wister.
Scope and Content
The letter was written from Jan Dubsky as a child in the ghetto in Terezín (Theresienstadt), Czechoslovakia, in 1941 to his grandmother in Slovakia. recto: in pencil, rough translation, "Dear Grandma/Thank you for your letter and kisses. We are waiting to see you. Grandma come to us./Jenda"
System of Arrangement
The Jan Dubsky letter is a single item.
People
- Dubsky, Jan.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Terezín (Czech Republic)
- Jewish ghettos--Czech Republic--Terezín (Severočeský kraj)
- Czech Republic.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust--Czech Republic--Terezín (Severočeský kraj)
- Children.
Genre
- Document
- Correspondence.
- Letters.