A Farewell Letter to Dita [On the Holocaust]

On the Holocaust - Yad Vashem by Yad Vashem

Dec 13, 202232:50Society & Culture

On July 7 1944, a mere couple of hours before the liquidation of the Będzin Ghetto and the murder of all the Jews imprisoned in it, Sarah and Yehiel Gerlitz wrote a farewell letter to their six-year-old daughter Dita. Di...

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