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Sala Grünbaum
11/5/40
Sosnowiec
Geppersdorf
Polish
Postcard
Regards, my brother and Lajbcia. Who is Zysman?
Bronia Weisberg
10/10/41
Sosnowiec
Geppersdorf
German
Postcard
Thanks for delivering parcel to mentally ill brother. Please do laundry for him.
Raizel Garncarz
2/14/41
Sosnowiec
Geppersdorf
German
Postcard
Raizel persists in asking Sala if she needs any food or money, and is especially persistent about asking if Sala needs stockings. She notes, "We miss you on Friday nights," but continues, "You wanted it that way and it will all be for the best."
Blima Garncarz
nd
Ulrichhammer
Ansbach
Polish
Letter
Description of life in sweden. Taking good care of her. She is cook. Heaviness on her heart as they prepare sabbath. Asks Sala to go to Bergen so she can be sent to Sweden.
Sala Garncarz
10/30/1940
Geppersdorf
null
Polish
diary
Friday. Ala always finds a spot for poor me next to her… Nobody to share my sorrow. Never before did I miss my beloved family.
Ala Gertner
12/5/1941
Bedzin
Geppersdorf
German
letter
A year ago, we were together, I thought you would be out. Tells her to send form for seamstress. You signed up voluntarily in your sister's stead….i kiss you on the mouth.
David Krzesiwo
2/14/43
Sosnowiec
Schatzlar
German
Postcard
Children are well. Don't be angry because we write so little. May God give that I don't have to write him a postcard for him to relieve our sufferings.
Raizel Garncarz
3/27/1941
Sosnowiec
Geppersdorf
German
letter
A celebratory note, Raizel writes that she and her parents were overjoyed to receive five postcards from Sala in the same day. She continues that Blima is pleged to be engaged to a man of which Raizel writes, "the face was nothing special just like all men." She concludes with a Mazel Tove that Sala and Ala and reconciled, and requests for Sala to avoid future misunderstandings with Ala "because that caused a lot of anguish."
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