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Letter from the Frydrych brothers to Max Hartstone and the United Ostrowizer Hilfs Committee
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- United Ostrowtzer Hilfs Committee fonds
- Letters from Individuals series
- Letter from the Frydrych brothers to Max Hartstone and the United Ostrowizer Hilfs Committee file
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- File
- ID
- Fonds 148; Series 1; File 44
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- United Ostrowtzer Hilfs Committee fonds
- Letters from Individuals series
- Letter from the Frydrych brothers to Max Hartstone and the United Ostrowizer Hilfs Committee file
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 148
- Series
- 1
- File
- 44
- Material Format
- textual record
- Date
- 23 Jun. 1946
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Admin History/Bio
- Moses (b. 1905), Issacher “Sucher” Frydrych (b. 1914), and Dawid (b. 1923 or 1925) were born in Bedzin, Poland, to Icek and Perla (née Neuman). The brothers were imprisoned in the Bergen-Belsen camp during the Holocaust, and in 1945 were taken to a hospital in Sweden. They were living in Stråtenbo-Aspeboda, Sweden in the mid-1940s, and according to a letter from Dawid Marmselstein, immigrated to Palestine in early 1947.
- Alternate spellings of their surname include Friedrich, Fridrickh, and Fridrich.
- Scope and Content
- File consists of a letter from the Frydrych brothers, Moses, Issauchar "Sucher," and David, in Stråtenbo-Aspeboda, Sweden, to the United Ostrowizer Hilfs Committee, dated 23 June 1946. The brothers write that they are living in a camp for convalescents, the conditions of which are very bad. They described their ongoing struggles with hunger, illness, and the lack of support from the local Jewish community. They enclose clippings depicting executions in Ostrowiec during the war. Envelope is included. File also contains a typed translation.
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- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
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