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International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Former prisoners of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp return on Holocaust Remembrance Day
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Holocaust letters survive Nazi death camps
The faded papers hint at stark details in the lives of Nazi concentration camp inmates. This undated photo shows the only recorded example of the censor mark of the International Military Tribunal.
Letters secretly carried by children through the sewers of Warsaw, Poland, during the 1944 uprising. A 1933 card from a Dachau camp commander outlining strict rules for prisoner mail. A 1943 letter from a young man, who spent time in Auschwitz, to his parents.
The more than 250 World War II postal documents — cards, letters and stamps — have been acquired by an Illinois foundation from a private collector and will soon be on permanent display in the Skokie-based Illinois Holocaust Museum.
Some of the exhibit is available online.
