NYPL, Letters To Sala

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Introduction Sala’s Europe, 1939-1945 Prewar Jewish Life and Deportation Nazi Slave Labor Camps The Judenrat Geppersdorf Nazi Postal System Ala Gertner Sala's Labor Camps Jewish Holidays Harry Haubenstock Schatzlar Liberation In America

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Photograph of Ala Gertner and Sala Garncarz
Taken in Sosnowitz, Poland, September 1941; signed and dated November 25, 1942, Bendsburg
NYPL, Dorot Jewish Division, Sala Garncarz Kischner Collection

While Sala and Ala were on leave in Sosnowitz, they had this photograph taken at a local studio. About a year later, Ala mailed the photograph to Sala in Geppersdorf.