Jan Dubsky letter

Identifier
irn516691
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1997.85
Dates
1 Jan 1941 - 31 Dec 1941
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Czech
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Creator(s)

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

Subjects

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