Plea for rescue from surviving Bais Yaakov girls, Bergen Belsen, 1946.
Letters from Bais Yakov and Yeshivah Bochurim, holocaust survivors Bergen blesen, 1946
This lot contains: a Collection of letters mostly penned by Bais Yaakov alumni who had survived the Holocaust and were lingering in Bergen-Belsen and Ostia’s displaced person camps, and were part of the Beis Yakov movement organized in the displaced camps.
2 letters written by Yeshiva Bochurim who were at the displaced person camps, who were part of Yeshivat Sheerith Yisroel established in the Belsen camp.
1 letter signed by congregation Sheerith Yisroel of camp Belsen.
These letters written by young Bais Yakov students and Yeshivah bochurim who’d been orphaned of both parents, (some bereft of their entire families) but had endured the Nazi years and miraculously survived.
These emotive letters tell an inspirational story of faith and a will to rebuild a generation of loyal Jews from the ashes of the inferno.
In these letters, the young women “cry with a broken, downtrodden heart” for material and spiritual assistance, and also warn of the spiritual dangers hovering upon other young women in the camp who were subjected to various forms of abuse. In conclusion, they plead to be rescued from the camp, “as soon as possible, for all hope is lost.” Some of the letters are regarding relief packages sent to them.
The letters from the Yeshiva Bochurim are written on the stationary of Yeshivas Sheeris Yisroel, the Bochurim (one of them a talmid of Rabbi Ahron Kotler Zt”l) recount their past experiences and their desire to learn in a Yeshivah were they can learn Torah as they are were used to in Lithuanian Yeshivahs.
The Lot contains 17 letters—15 from Bergen-Belsen, and 2 from Ostia, Rome. 4 letters are written in German. Some in Yiddish.
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