Description
Object description
Documents relating to her Polish family during and immediately after the Second World War, comprising: letter and postcard dated 1941 written in Polish by Wlodka Blit (later Robertson) and sent from the Warsaw ghetto to her uncle Roman Blit in New York, the letter being mutilated and including a note from the British censor that it had been found in that condition; fragment of a letter in Polish, with crayon drawing, written from the ghetto to Roman Blit by Wlodka's younger sister Nelli; two articles in Polish, typed during the war onto the back of issues of the American bulletin 'The Ghetto Speaks' by Wlodka's father Lucjan Blit, a member of the Jewish Socialist Party (Bund) in Poland who escaped to England (and is mentioned in the bulletins); Wlodka's Polish school identity card for the academic year 1945-46.
Content description
Documents relating to her Polish family during and immediately after the Second World War, comprising: letter and postcard dated 1941 written in Polish by Wlodka Blit (later Robertson) and sent from the Warsaw ghetto to her uncle Roman Blit in New York, the letter being mutilated and including a note from the British censor that it had been found in that condition; fragment of a letter in Polish, with crayon drawing, written from the ghetto to Roman Blit by Wlodka's younger sister Nelli; two articles in Polish, typed during the war onto the back of issues of the American bulletin 'The Ghetto Speaks' by Wlodka's father Lucjan Blit, a member of the Jewish Socialist Party (Bund) in Poland who escaped to England (and is mentioned in the bulletins); Wlodka's Polish school identity card for the academic year 1945-46.
History note
Cataloguer SWW
History note
Catalogue date 2005-09