Hi,
Not long ago, Ima aunt came to visit from Australia. She rearranged some papers and found a postcard that was sent to her mother (my mother grandmother), by her brother Zyskind (sweet child in Yiddish. His real name was Gedaliah, and I was named after him – Gad.
This was the last postcard he sent over from to a pass-camp before she was taken to Auschwitz concentration camp. This according to my Aunt.
It was long before we found out what it says. It was a mixture of Yiddish and old fashioned German.
The postcard was sent from where they lived before – Sosnowiec in Schlesie (now it is South-West Poland).
The postcard says:
Maria Sara Szyjaka,
I didn’t wrote for my eyes are not good.
Be strong and healthy, and greetings to your father and mother.
Many greetings and kisses.Hug you
Zyski
Krysin.From all the heart. Thank God everything is good.
Address:
Maria Sara Szyjka
Landeshut in Schlesiea
Yudenlager Hirschbergstrasse
Aukier
My grandmother story in the Holocaust you can read over here. She was released from Auscwitz II- Birkenau. All her family, except her sister that brought us the postcard, were murdered by the Nazis. Including her mother, Sara and her brother, Zyiskind, that wrote the postcard.
Looking on postcard, sent by the man I was named after, with Adolf Hitler stamp on it – and only imagine if they knew what is happening….
Take care
Gad
The postcard
My grandmother family: my grandmother on the right with the hat, her sister in the middle (she is the smallest). None except of the survived the Holocaust.
My grandmother (left) and her elder sister in 1930’s