Collection of Letters and Documents belonging to a Theresienstadt Survivor, 1945-49

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Some 150 letters, postcards, and items of ephemera documenting the life of Yocheved (Jadzia) Rabinowitz, a Theresienstadt concentration camp survivor who resided in Munich following the war. Europe and Palestine, 1945-49. German, Polish; some Yiddish, Hebrew, and additional languages.
Some 120 letters, postcards, and telegrams (most handwritten) sent to Yocheved (Jadzia) Rabinowitz from acquaintances and family members (some of them also evidently Holocaust survivors) – Munich, Paris, London, Lodz, Tel Aviv, and elsewhere. Among the letters are four "shanah tovah" cards for Hebrew New Year 5709 (1948), one issued by the Jewish National Fund in Munich, and one bearing a portrait of Theodor Herzl in giolden ink.
Some 30 documents and items of ephemera: Two documents from the Theresienstadt camp administration certifying that Rabinowitz is leaving the camp and is not suffering from any illnesses (June 1945); five "International Reply Coupons" (attached to letters in order to cover the costs of Rabinowitz's letters of reply, 1945); three invitations to weddings of Jewish couples (1948); handwritten note from a representative of the consulate of Israel in Munich – request to allow Rabinowitz to board a plane and immigrate to Israel on account of the heart disease suffered by an uncle living in Israel (1949); and additional documents.
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Antisemitism, The Holocaust and Sheerit HaPletah
Antisemitism, The Holocaust and Sheerit HaPletah