Tadeusz Januchta letter
Extent and Medium
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Creator(s)
- Tadeusz Januchta
Biographical History
Tadeusz Januchta was born on 30 March 1913, in Kielce. Little is known about him, other than information recorded about him in the files of the International Tracing Service. He was a Roman Catholic Pole, who prior to the war, worked as a railway machinist, and was sent to Auschwitz on 22 August 1943, and assigned prisoner number 137541. Among other tasks as a forced laborer there, he worked as a sewer cleaner. Subsequent to this, he was a prisoner at Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora, including a sub-camp of of the latter, known as Dora-Sangerhausen, near Osterode (a letter from Januchta, dated 4 January 1945, and by him from this camp, is held in the archives of McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont., Canada). He survived these camps, and after the war, returned to his home in Kielce.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Nancy Gillette
Gift of Nancy Gillette, 2016.
Scope and Content
One letter, dated 12 December 1943, sent by prisoner Tadeusz Januchta, from the Auschwitz concentration camp, to his wife, Zinaida, in Kielce, Poland. In the letter, Januchta reports to his wife that he had received her previous letter, had received a package the previous day, and that while packages have been arriving, she should pay attention to regulations about sending photographs, and not to send him any further money. He closes by sending Christmas and New Year's greetings to his wife and daughter.
People
- Januchta, Zinaida.
Subjects
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Concentration camp inmates--Poland--Correspondence.
- Kielce (Poland)
Genre
- Document