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Threatening letter sent by Nazis in Dessau to Adolf and Helena Goldman, who lived in Dessau in 1937, demanding that they report to the crematorium for cremation of their bodies, drink a liter of oil to make the fire burn better and pay the cremation expenses in advance

Threatening letter sent by Nazis in Dessau to Adolf and Helena Goldman, who lived in Dessau in 1937, demanding that they report to the crematorium for cremation of their bodies, drink a liter of oil to make the fire burn better and pay the cremation expenses in advance The letter was sent as if it had come from the administration of the crematorium in Dessau; the document is signed "Sargmann (the Undertaker)"; the letter was translated into Hebrew by Hillel Schechter.
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item Id
7880771
Type of material
Letter
File Number
602
Language
German
Record Group
O.8 - Germany Collection
Date of Creation - earliest
1937
Date of Creation - latest
1937
Name of Submitter
תמר ארבל
Original
NO
No. of pages/frames
2
Connected to Item
O.8 - Documentation regarding the Jews of Germany, mainly during the Holocaust