Tadeusz Ciekata and Benedykt Bielski letters
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Eva Ryterband donated this collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on July 4, 2006. Eva is the daughter of Wanda Bilska.
Scope and Content
The Tadeusz Ciekata and Benedykt Bielski letters consists of letters sent by Benedykt Bielski to his family from the Flossenbürg concentration camp in 1940 and 1941. The letters are written on camp stationery were sent by Tadeusz Ciekata to his family and his girlfriend, Wanda Bilska from the Wiener Neudorf concentration camp, a sub-camp of Mauthausen concentration camp. Wanda Bilska is the sister of Benedykt Bielski, who was killed in the Holocaust. Tadeusz Ciekata survived the war. The letter dated May 11, 1945 describes Tadeusz’s his liberation experiences and how excited he is to be reunited with his family and Wanda Bilska.
System of Arrangement
The Tadeusz Ciekata and Benedykt Bielski letters are arranged in a single series.
People
- Bilska, Wanda.
- Ciekata, Tadeusz.
- Bielski, Benedykt.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Germany.
- Concentration camp inmates.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Austria.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Germany.
Genre
- Document
- Correspondence.