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

Photograph | Photograph Number: 28569A
A postcard sent by Jonas and Anka Leah Tenenbaum in the Warsaw ghetto to Anka's sister and daughter in Chicago. The Polish text reads: "To my dear sister, brother-in-law and daughter. We are healthy but we have no means of support. Please send bigger food parcels. Nechama is in Sterdyn, Srulik got married, and we have no income. Please send food for us to survive. We still have hope, but we are exhausted. Other people receive money through Overseas Distributors. Find out about it. Don't wait to send food. With love, your father, mother and siblings Tenenbaum."

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

The Polish text reads: "To my dear sister, brother-in-law and daughter. We are healthy but we have no means of support. Please send bigger food parcels. Nechama is in Sterdyn, Srulik got married, and we have no income. Please send food for us to survive. We still have hope, but we are exhausted. Other people receive money through Overseas Distributors. Find out about it. Don't wait to send food. With love, your father, mother and siblings Tenenbaum."

Date
1941 March 14
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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