Cheyenne Glerum T3A

History 17.10.2011

Index:
1. 2. 3. 4. Introduction Post from oblivion, voices from the ghettos Conclusion List of sources

1. Introduction
The 10th of October we went to het Land van Axel in Axel. There was a exhibition about post and ghettos from WOII. We got a list with twenty questions we had to answer.

2. Post from oblivion, voices from the ghettos

In the museum we found lots of letters and postcards from the ghettos. They all were written between 1933 and 1945. The oldest letter was from the 21st of May, 1933. There were also many postcards. According to a postcard, Hitler wanted to take over the world and the moon. In the postcard on the left you can see Hitler and the bleeding world and moon. All over the world is written: Deutschland. You can read Le Rve dHitler. His dream was to conquer the world!
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But there werent only Anti-Hitler cards. There also were anti-Semitic cards. Those were cards which made fun of Jews.

Danzig was a Polish city. Hitler wanted Danzig to be a German city because of the minority of German speaking people. Hitler also wanted the Polish Corridor to be removed. It was set there with the treaty of Versailles, 1919. Thats when Danzig became a state on its own. That meant the Germans only could reach EastPrussia by crossing Danzig. There also had been militarism on post stamps. You saw all different things that had to do with the war. For example, you could see soldiers, warships etc. There were lots of letters and postcards send from Poland and Czech-Slovakia. They all came from ghettos. Such as the ghetto from Izbica, the ghetto from Warsaw,

the ghetto from Sosnowiec, the ghetto van Chestochowa, the ghetto from Krakau and the ghetto from Lodz. There were lots of letters send to mislead people. So people would think everything was okay. Those letters were send from Sobibor, Auschwitz and Birkenau. The letters were send home, so the family would think everything is fine in the camps. But what the family didnt know, was that the writer of the letter would be dead after 20 minutes of writing the letter. There was just normal post as well. Not to mislead people but just post. Those letters came from the camp in Warsaw. There were also lots of camps in Holland were Jewish people were brought to. Such as Westenbork, Ommen, Schoorl, Vught and Amersfoort. There werent only camps for Jews in Holland, there also was a very big Jewish neighborhood. This neighborhood was found between the Wolveniersburgwal, Waterloopplein, Valkenburgers straat, Prins Hendrikkade, Oost- en Rivierenbuurt and the Central Station. Fifty thousand Jews lived here. There were several things you could find in a Red Cross package from Denmark. It was hard to read what you could find in it. But there was Vaseline in it, crme and a toothbrush. Thats all I could read from the note. The Nazi had several had several symbols. The Swastika: Since the coming of the Nationalistic German Labor party in Germany, the Swastika became the symbol that was connected with fascism, racism, the Second World War and the Holocaust.

The Reichsadler The Eagle is a symbol of the Third Reich, also known as the Nazi. This symbol is called the Reichsadler. The eagle itself is a symbol of power and strength. Thats why Hitler took this as his symbol.

The Iron Cross The Iron Cross was a medal that existed in the Napoleonic Wars. But that was without the Swastika. Hitler renewed it in 1939 and placed the Swastika in the middle of the cross.

Here can ere you can see a postcard with, from left to right: Chamberlain, Daladier, Hitler, Mussoline and Ciano. Those were all very important people in the Second World War.

Lodz was a well known ghetto, also called Litzmannstadt. They had their own post stamps. On these stamps, Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski was printed. He was the leader of the Jewish Council in Lodz. But there was also the Jewish Council in Amsterdam. This council was set up in 13 February, 1941. The two leaders of this council were Abraham Asscher and David Cohen. They were pretty happy with the Jewish Council, because now they could organize things themselves. Not everything, but just a bit. Just like the food. That was what the Jewish Council took care of. But the Jewish Council was something good for the Germans too. Everything in the ghetto was organized by the Jewish Council. If the Jewish people wanted something, they told the Jewish Council and the council told the Germans. The Germans didnt have to organize everything themselves.

List of sources

http://www.adl.org/hate_symbols/neo_nazi_swastika_flag.asp http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakenkruis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Germany http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_Agreement http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joodsche_Raad http://www.auschwitz.nl/paviljoen/vervolging/joodsche-raad http://www.cympm.com/judenratdutch.html My father, Elco Glerum