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Letter

itemFebruary 20, 1943

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Letter
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Montreal Holocaust Museum via Canadian Jewish Heritage Network (incl. Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives)
Dates
February 20, 1943 (indexed as 1943)
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Extent
Letter : Paper : Printed, Handwritten, Stamped : Ink : Beige
Scope & content
Two sided printed form to send letter from concentration camp. Recto is printed with mail related rules, the recipient's address is handwritten on right hand side, on top right is a red postal stemp with Hitler's profile and a circular postal ink stamp with the date and location. On verso is handwritten a letter dated 1943-07-17. In the letter, Dawicki thanks his parents for a parcel, with stamps and money, that they sent to him. Narrative: Letter was sent from Heinrich Dawicki, born 1914-04-20 to his parents in Lodz (Litzmannstadt). Dawicki was not Jewish, he was a haircutter and he was arrested by the Gestapo on 1940-05-20 in Lodz. The reason of his arrest is unknown. His prisoner's number in Dachau concentration camp was 11707. Prisoners were allowed to write letters to their families, but only in German language and at most two times the month. The letters were censored and mentionning the situation in the camp was not allowed. The contents of all the letters sent are therefore very similar. Heinrich Dawicki was liberated on 1945-04-29. We don´t know what happened to him after. In the Concentration Camp Inmates Questionnaire from 1945-07-20 kept in the Dachau memorial archives, he claims to go back to his family in Lodz.
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DACHAUKonzentrationslager Dachau 3KHerrnJosef DawickiLitzmannstadtMoltkestr. 249Raum für Zensurstempel:Kontrollzeichen des Blockführers:Woltersh. 249Absender:Meine Adresse:Name:geboren am:BlockFolgende Anordnungen sind beim Schriftverkehr mit Gefangenen zu beachten:1.) Jeder Schutzhaftgefangene darf im Monat zwei Briefe oder zwei Karten von seinen Angehörigen empfangen und an sie absenden.Die Briefe an die Gefangenen müssen gut lesbar mit Tinte geschrieben sein und dürfen nur 15 Zeilen auf einer Seite enthalten.Alle Post, die diesen Anforderungen nicht entspricht, wird vernichtet.Der Lagerkommandant.Read automatically; may contain mistakes.
Language
German
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