Letter to Paulina Wlodawer

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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Information about the object
Author/creator
Justman, Regina (1913-1942?)
Object type
correspondence
Time of creation/dating
20th century
Created place
Warszawa (mazovian province)
Technique
printing
manual script
stamp
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-A4.1.7