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Postcard to Sala Garncarz, in German, Sosnowitz, Poland, December 20, 1940

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Raizel Garncarz
Postcard to Sala Garncarz, in German, Sosnowitz, Poland, December 20, 1940
NYPL, Dorot Jewish Division, Sala Garncarz Kischner Collection

Raizel explains that Sala may not have received letters from family and friends because they were written in Polish. The Nazis required that correspondence be written in German, and would not deliver letters in Polish or Yiddish. Raizel encourages Sala to speak with her supervisors to get a “vacation.”