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The Florida Holocaust Museum: History, Heritage and Hope Permanent Exhibition

Personal Items of Camp Prisoners

Letters and Postcards

Several labor and concentration camps permitted certain inmates to correspond with their families. Prisoners used stationery pre-printed with rules and restrictions. These rules limited the length of letters and postcards and required all outgoing mail to be written in German, despite the prisoner's native language. Prisoners could not describe the true conditions of the camp, and frequently wrote that they were in good health. Camp officials reviewed and censored all incoming and outgoing mail.

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Identification Document This identification paper was issued to Survivor, Mary Wygodski (née Tabachowitz) after liberation.The document states that she is a "former Jewish civil prisoner of the concentration camp" in Magdeburg and that she worked there from November 5, 1944 until April 11, 1945. Shortly after the Germans occupied Vilna, Wygodski and her family were sent to the ghetto. In 1943, she was separated from her mother and two sisters at a boxcar. She was brought to Kaiserwald Labor Camp in Latvia and then to Stutthof Concentration Camp in Germany. Finally she was transferred to Magdeburg where she was liberated.
personal items
Audio File 129 - Personal Items of Camp Prisoners
Letter from Oranienburg, 1941
Letter from Breslau, November 25, 1938