Postcards from Theresienstadt

With the support of several helpers, in 1943 and 1944 Otto Weidt sent more than 100 food packages to his workers imprisoned in the Theresienstadt ghetto, and to their relatives and acquaintances there. This helped them to survive.

Presented by National Socialist propaganda as a “retirement settlement” for Jews, the Theresienstadt ghetto was in reality barely distinguishable from a concentration camp.

Prisoners were allowed to write a limited number of censored postcards and thank senders for packages on pre-printed receipt confirmation cards. They sometimes managed to call attention to their misery through covert references.