Letter To Oswiecim, Poland

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Oswiecim, Poland
January, 1945 My dearest wife Hilda,
I am writing this letter in hopes that one day You will be able to read this letter and be able to live life knowing what happened to me and not have worry about me. Before I want you to know that don't stop believing in the world just because a small part of it is making the rest seem horrible. Always fight for what you believe in don't let others tell you you are wrong for what you support or believe. I want to make sure that while you are reading this that you may learn things about me that you did not know before this tragedy happened and when we lived normal lives. I pray that when you are reading this letter that you have been liberated and are no longer in danger of death. You may know many things about me as that is no surprise for I have no secrets from you but I would like to make sure you know anything that might have not been talked about or mentioned. I was born on February 28,1908 in a town called Brno, Czechoslovakia to my loving parents; one of two children. I got my law degree from Brno University on November 27,1931. Two years after I graduated law school I met you and we married on December
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I lost my job because I was jewish and shortly after that Me and you were forced to move out of our apartment. We had moved in with my sister Edita after we were kicked out of our apartment in 1941. I had become a liaison between the germans and the Jewish council, also I helped prepare the emigration list for Palestine. In 1943 They put us, Editas family , and jews and any others that did fit the standards to be an aryan and that were thought to be threat to the aryan race all in the Theresienstadt ghetto in western Czechoslovakia. We luckily were put in the married quarters of the ghetto if cause if we weren't I don't think we would have been deported together. On October 28, 1944 we were deported to

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