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Letter to Raizel and Blima Garncarz, in Polish, Bergen-Belsen, Germany, October 10, 1945

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Sala Garncarz, via the World Jewish Congress Relief and Rehabilitation Department
Letter to Raizel and Blima Garncarz, in Polish, Bergen-Belsen, Germany, October 10, 1945
NYPL, Dorot Jewish Division,

In Bergen-Belsen, Sala’s friend Susi Ginter obtained Raizel and Blima’s address in Sweden. Sala immediately wrote to her sisters in her native Polish, describing moments of her five years as “Gehenna,” Hebrew/Yiddish for “hell.” She reassures them that she is healthy, has good friends around her, and has saved the photographs of their beloved parents.