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Letter written by Rabbi Leib Geliebter in Czestochowa camp to his brothers-in-law Ari, Mottel and Nahum Menashe describing the deportation of his family from Plock and the murder of the Jews from Poland in the gas chambers, 28 March 1943 The letter describes the murder of Jews in gas chambers according to information that reached him from people who survived (it is not clear how); according to him, people are brought into the chamber which is then closed hermetically and fills up with gas; after their death the floor is electrified and the bodies in the chamber burn up and turn into ashes; the floor opens up...

File Number : 1579

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Yiddish

To be translated

File Number : 467

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Yiddish