A handwritten letter by Dachau death camp inmate Rudolf Wiener of Block 20, Room 4. Sent from the camp on December 2, 1938. German.
The letter apparently addressed to his wife opens with the words: "Mine lieben" ("My love") Wiener expresses his concern that on his first letter others added things in his name that he did not write. And asks her to try to make direct and immediate contact and not through a telegraph with a woman named Bella. And adds that he will delete things written by Annie Brown that could harm him. Weiner goes on to tell about wounds in his body that do not freeze, about chest pains, about clothes that 'disappeared' from him, and about his longing for many of his friends who do not know what happened to them. Towards the end of the letter, Wiener asks her to contact a certain lawyer he knew which could help him
The first page of the letter contains instructions in print regarding sending and receiving letters from Dachau, under a warning - any letter that does not comply with the written instructions will be destroyed on the spot. This letter also included stricter instructions in ink stamping.
Jews began to be deported to the Dachau camp in 1938 after Kristallnacht. Apparently Wiener also came up with these initial waves. According to the letter, Wiener's date of birth is December 15, 1901. We do not know what happened to Rudolph. Yad Vashem's database contains ten people with the name 'Rudolf Wiener', all of whom were murdered in the Holocaust, but none of them were born in 1901.
[4] p. 21 cm. Reinforcements with paper gluing. Slight tears at margins. Good condition.
