Request for clothing/poem
Not on view
Date1943-05-21
Mediumform on paper completed in pencil
Dimensions8 1/4 x 5 3/4 in.
ClassificationsDocument
Credit LineGift of Milton and Gita Kaufman and Howard and Sue Pinsky
Object number1913.91
Object DescriptionRequest in German for clothing and other items submitted to the distribution center by Gertrude Hojtas. She is asking for a robe, handbag, shoe wax, sandals, a watchband, a summer dress, head scarf, skin cream and blouses. States that these things are needed urgently because she has been in Terezin for ten months and hasn't requested anything from the distribution center before. On back is poem in Czech. Most likely written at Terezin and is taken from a Czech folk song.Keywords
- German
- Czech
- Ghettos
- Defiance-religious and cultural
- Terezin
