Letters from Zbąszyń [1939-1940]

Tomaszewski, Jerzy, 1930-2014
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Title Letters from Zbąszyń [1939-1940].
Host Item Yad Vashem Studies 19 (1988) 289-315
Description On 27 October 1938 German authorities began to round up Jews of Polish nationality living in Germany
ca. 17,000 were taken to the Polish border and concentrated near the towns of Bytom and Zbąszyń. On 31 October Polish authorities decided to prevent Jews from leaving the area, hoping to exert pressure on Germany to take them back. Relief measures were organized by local inhabitants, the Polish Red Cross, the Joint, and a Polish Jewish committee. When negotiations with Germany dragged on, the Jews were gradually released. In January 1939 an agreement was reached to allow deportees to return to Germany to settle their affairs. Pp. 296-311 contain an English translation of the correspondence of members of the Schiffmann family (now in the Yad Vashem archives) dated May 1939-December 1940, relating their troubles. Their fate is unknown. Includes facsimiles of postcards. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
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Language English
Credits באדיבות יש ושם – רשות הזיכרון לשואה ולגבורה Courtesy of Yad Vashem - The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
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