Weiner, Morris "Moe" (1909-1988) to Sylvia Weiner
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09414.1109 Author/Creator: Weiner, Morris "Moe" (1909-1988) Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 7 June 1944 Pagination: 5 p. : envelope ; 16 x 24 cm. Order a Copy
Moe comments that Sylvia has not received any mail from him in a week and Moe thinks it may been deliberately upheld because of the current situation. He feels badly about the Polish situation. He is glad she is warming to the idea of living in the country. He also mentions the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising which took place a year previous to this letter. He says that, the accounts that have reached him were pieced together "was a compound of horror brutality and barbarism, but over and above all was heroism, heroism of the highest and most exalted order. These people decided not to take it lying down, They fought - and how they fought." Moe continued to talk about the uprising saying that it was in the hope of changing the world, even if little notice had been paid at this point.
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