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Reply letter written by Jan Krawczyk in Tarnow to his Jewish friend on 03 June 1945, containing information regarding the Jews in Poland, including in Tarnow during and after the war

Reply letter written by Jan Krawczyk in Tarnow to his Jewish friend on 03 June 1945, containing information regarding the Jews in Poland, including in Tarnow during and after the war Letter containing information regarding the various murders of Jews, Poles, Russians, Gypsies, and Slavic peoples by the Germans during the war; survival of 300 Jews in Tarnow out of 20,000 Jews who lived there before the war; hypothesis regarding the death of his family; information regarding the experiences of the Jews during the war, including confinement in ghettos, transfer to camps, and murder in gas chambers or by firing squads; information regarding mass graves; looting of the possessions of the victims; retreat of the Germans and arrival of the Red Army; economic situation in Poland after the war; information regarding efforts to improve the situation in Poland; life with his family in Tarnow; mention of the address of the Jewish community of the city. Note: The letter was written in Tarnow in response to a letter he received a few days earlier.
item Id
3727526
Type of material
Letter
File Number
1590
Language
Polish
Record Group
O.33 - Testimonies, Diaries and Memoirs Collection
Date of Creation - earliest
03/06/1945
Date of Creation - latest
03/06/1945
No. of pages/frames
2
Connected to Item
O.33- Testimonies, diaries and memoirs from the Holocaust period and regarding the Holocaust
Dedication
Moshal Repository, Yad Vashem Archival Collection