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Letter from Abraham and Miriam Wasserman

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Two letters to the Tarasiewicz family on one sheet of paper. The first one is written by Miriam Wasserman née Kaczergińska, sister of Salomon and mother of Aron, with whom she was hiding during the occupation with the help of the Tarasiewicz family. In it, she briefly mentions one person who died during the war, expresses her gratitude and describes her current living situation (hers and Aron's) in Israel. On the second page there is a letter from her husband, Abraham Wasserman, whom she met after the war. The author opens it with a quotation from the poem Mój testament (My Testament) by Juliusz Słowacki ("I lived with you - I suffered and cried with you. I have never been indifferent to anyone noble"). In his letter, he thanks for the help given to his wife and stepson during the occupation. He writes that the Tarasiewiczs saved Poland's honour with their attitude. He also expresses his longing for Warsaw, which he left after returning from Siberia at the end of the war because he was fleeing the country "like a plague, as far as possible from the graves".

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Information about the object
Author/creator
Wasserman, Miriam (? - 19..)
Wasserman, Abraham
Object type
correspondence
Time of creation / dating
2nd half of the 20th century
Created place
Tel Aviv-Yafo (Israel)
Technique
manual script
Material
paper
Keywords
Copyrights status
the object is not protected by copyright law
Owner
POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews
Identification number
MPOLIN-A23.1.3