Kasimir Knapczyk Auschwitz letter, 1941
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of David Heck
David Heck donated this collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Nov. 11, 2008. He purchased the document in order to donate it to the Museum.
Scope and Content
Consists of one letter, written by Polish prisoner Kasimir Knapczyk on February 9, 1941, while he was imprisoned in the Auschwitz concentration camp. In the letter, written on camp stationery, he thanks his family for their letter and asks for more news. Mr. Knapcyzk, who had prisoner number 709, perished in Auschwitz on August 8, 1941.
Subjects
- Concentration camps--Poland--Oświęcim.
Genre
- Document
- Letters.