"I would very much like to immigrate to Eretz Yisrael I could respond to the attackers, not like here that I am ...

"I would very much like to immigrate to Eretz Yisrael I could respond to the attackers, not like here that I am afraid" Letters from Students of 'Tarbut' School in Zawiercie - Poland, 1938

"I would very much like to immigrate to Eretz Yisrael I could respond to the attackers, not like here that I am afraid" - five letters written by students at the "Tarbut" school in Zawiercie [Kielce Poland] to their friends in Eretz Israel on the eve of the terrible Holocaust. All of them have instructive details about the increasing anti-Semitism and the grave concern about the following. Poland, 1938.

In the letters, the students describe their work for the JNF in collecting money and conferences, as well as the fact that the school speaks only Hebrew. In their letter, the increasing anti-Semitism towards Polish Jews Noticeable, almost all of them tells about  the incessant harassment of non-Jews and the grave fear of the future, For example, in a letter written by a student named Henia Yachtson: "At school, we only hear Hebrew but when we go out then the bags hit us and throw stones at us ... You see children even the small ones suffer, The big ones suffer a lot more, I would very much like to immigrate to Eretz Yisrael. To respond to the attackers, not like here I'm afraid".  In other letter by Moshe Froman, it says: "The situation of the Jews in Poland is bad for the andakim ((Democrats of the National Democratic Party) wants the Jewish students sat on the left side of the university, but the Jews do not agree with it. Now I finish the letter. Hello to you, Moshe Froman - a cultural school in Zawiercie." 

On September 4, 1939, Zawiercie occupied by the Germans,  and these imposed various decrees on Jews, including the payment of ransom, the obligation to perform forced labor and confiscation of business, in various acts of abuse. In September 1941, all the city's Jews were concentrated in the ghetto that was established in it, from which from time to time Germans murdered Jews. Soon, Kromolov's Jews joined the ghetto. In mid-1942, the SS ghetto and Polish police raided the ghetto in the city, sending about 2,000 of its residents to Auschwitz. At the end of 1942, she began operating in the ghetto in a Jewish underground city of members of Hashomer Hatzair, which assisted in the attempt to smuggle Jews from the ghetto to the border crossing of Slovakia. In August 1943, SS and Polish policemen deported between 6,000 to 7,000 Jews from the ghetto to Auschwitz, while the Judenrat was murdered there.

 About 500 forced laborers left in the ghetto were sent to Auschwitz on October 18, 1943.

The letters were all written in the month of Kislev 1938 [dated the letters]. It was not clear what happened to the writing children and whether they survived the Holocaust or perished.

Following a process of clear remarks about the student's letter Rachel Mintz the item was removed from the lot.

4 letters in total, [8] leaves. Very good condition.