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A postcard sent by Anka Leah Tenenbaum in the Warsaw ghetto to her sister and daughter in Chicago.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 28568A
A postcard sent by Anka Leah Tenenbaum in the Warsaw ghetto to her sister and daughter in Chicago. The Polish text reads: "To my dear sister, brother-in-law and daughter. We received your two packages. Please send more food parcels. We know that the packages can be as large as 4 kg. If you can, please send matzoh for Passover. There is nothing more dignified to write about. Do what you can. Please let me know if you get our letters. Love from us all, your sister and mother Tenenbaum."

A postcard sent by Anka Leah Tenenbaum in the Warsaw ghetto to her sister and daughter in Chicago.

The Polish text reads: "To my dear sister, brother-in-law and daughter. We received your two packages. Please send more food parcels. We know that the packages can be as large as 4 kg. If you can, please send matzoh for Passover. There is nothing more dignified to write about. Do what you can. Please let me know if you get our letters. Love from us all, your sister and mother Tenenbaum."

Date
1941 February 01
Locale
Warsaw, Poland
Variant Locale
Warszawa
Varshava
Warschau
Photo Designation
GHETTOS (MAJOR) -- WARSAW (Poland) -- Documents/Notices
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Esther Tenenbaum Sonheim

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Biography
Esther Sonheim (born Estera Tenenbaum) is the daughter of Anka Leah (Manczyk) and Jonas Tenenbaum. She was born January 27, 1921, in Warsaw, where her father owned a grocery business. Estera had five siblings: Pinchas Mendel (b. 1910), Nechama (b. 1917), Srulik (b. 1919), Fajwel (b. 1925) and Szmuel (b. 1917). In 1936, following a visit by her Aunt Sara Keller from Chicago, the family decided to send Estera to live with her relatives in the United States. Estera traveled to Le Havre, France, in the fall of that year, and from there, sailed to New York, arriving at the end of October. Estera and her American relatives tried in vain to get the Tenebaum family out of Poland. During the war Estera sent numerous food packages to her brother Pinchas in Zdunska Wola and to her parents in the Warsaw ghetto. In 1942, however, all the members of her family were deported and killed in Treblinka.

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Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Esther Tenenbaum Sonheim
Source Record ID: Collections: 1997.A.158
 
Record last modified: 2003-10-03 00:00:00
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