A letter
1945
Museum of the history of Polish Jews
Part of the collection: The family memorabilia of Justmans and Włodawers
A letter on a postcard with Postkarte witten on the address side. A preserved stamp - pre-war Polish stamp, transformed with a postal seal into a stamp of the Third Reich (gapa added, 2 denominations: 30, inscription General-Gouvernement); a postmark on a stamp with an illegible date, a Soviet seal with an illegible date as well. The letter is from Warsaw from Regina Justman to Paulina Włodawer to Lutsk (14 Czacki street). The Justman family still lived at 69 Pańska Street apt. 8. The contents of the letter: reflections on the sister's departure.Regina Justman addressed the letter to her sister: at Kasmans' - meanwhile, Paulina Justman in her diary (MPOLIN-A4.1.1) calls the family Kiercmanowie. This is how she presents the couple with whom she and her husband lived in Lutsk (entry of 25 September 1980): ,,Kiercmanowie were a married couple without kids of about 45 years of age, so to us they seemed rather old and we treated them as good old uncles. She was quite round and pretty brunette, he - a tall, broad-shouldered blonde, resembled a Masovian peasant rather than a Jew. My God, how these people treated us!!! The closest family would not be able to show such warmth and cordiality and such sincere devotion. To the room that we occupied, they brought everything that could possibly be of use and that could give us pleasure. It was already quite cold, and naturally there was no fuel in the city, but Kiercman still had a lot of remnants from his wood storehouse, so none other apartment was ever as warm as our room. He was a man of extraordinary kindness, simple and uneducated, but with a sense of humor and natural “peasant intelligence. He found work for Dad [i.e. for Artur Włodawer, the husband of Paulina, who writes the diary for her son] in some sawmill, I think, or something similar, and he advised me to look for a job at school, the former gymnasium named after I don't remember whom (Kościuszko!) “.
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correspondence
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handwriting, printing
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paper
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POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews
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1945
Museum of the history of Polish Jews
20 c.
Museum of the history of Polish Jews
1940
Museum of the history of Polish Jews
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