Auction 14 Eretz Israel, settlement, anti-Semitism, Holocaust, postcards and photographs, Judaica, Chabad, Rabbinical Letters
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Jan 10, 2022
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LOT 58:

14 letters sent from an inmate in the Stalag camp 6. France, 1941-1942

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14 letters sent from an inmate in the Stalag camp 6. France, 1941-1942


14 letters sent by the inmate of the Companion Camp Marcel Boris in the years 1941- 1942. All signed with an ink stamp of the camp, and dated. Most of the letters were sent to Boris' wife.


In the letters, Boris tells the experiences in his daily life in the camp. He tells how his clothes and the prisoners' clothes around him have not been washed for several months, and repeatedly asks for outside help to release him from the camp. Since he has not seen his wife for a long time he asks her to send him pictures of her to the camp, and does not understand why she does not send letters back. (Apparently the letters did not reach his wife at all, as he often asks why she does not respond to his letters), he often tells about the freezing cold in the camp, about the harsh conditions, about the forced labor, and on his relations with the other prisoners. It is interesting to note that in his letters Boris uses hints to various matters related to his fate and expects his wife to understand the allusions he hint. In one of the letters which was written to his wife with longing, Boris pasted a flower which he found in the camp.


The Compiègne concentration camp, [known by the Nazis as "Front-Stalag 122"], was one of the largest concentration and transit camps in France near the city of Compiègne, 75 kilometers north of Paris, where some 54,000 people were imprisoned during World War II from June 1941 to August 1944. , Among them: political prisoners, communists and Jews. About 45,000 inmates were deported from the camp to the Auschwitz extermination camp and to other concentration and extermination camps. At the outbreak of World War II in 1939, the French set up a military hospital in several old white barracks in the city of Compiegne. A year later, when France was occupied by Germany, the Germans turned the facility into a POW camp. The Gestapo then took control of the camp and in June 1941 turned it into the Front-Stalag 122, a permanent concentration camp for "hostile regime" prisoners. Beginning in February 1942, an official order designated a place for Jews in the camp "for deportation purposes" and "hostages for the future implementation of retaliatory measures." The Jews were concentrated in part of the camp and separated from the French and Russians who had previously stayed there, by barbed wire fences.

The first deportation of Jews and political prisoners from France to the Nazi concentration camps came from the Compiegne camp. On Friday, March 27, 1942, the first train with 1,120 Jews deported to Auschwitz left it. Between 1942 and 1944, twenty-six small shipments departed and another 12 large ones. Over 45,000 people - resistance fighters, Jews, trade unionists and others - were sent from the Compiegne camp to concentration and extermination camps in Nazi Germany.


general condition very good.