Title

Atlit Detention Camp "Illegal" Jewish Immigrant Enquiry Letter from Manela Lustiger to Nitsch Family in Prague, Czechoslovakia

Authors

Object ID

2019.2.120

Object Name

Correspondence

Date

3-24-1941

Files

Description

Numbered 61 in top right corner, titled “DEMANDEUR – ANFRAGESTELLER – ENQUIRER” at top of page in black print, back titled “RESPONSE ANTWORT REPLY”

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

The Lustigers, refugees from Nazi- occupied Europe, have been detained at Atlit camp, south of Haifa, Palestine, by British authorities. Atlit was established to prevent Jewish immigrants from entering Palestine in accordance with the 1939 White Paper. Mrs. Lustiger writes that Mr. Lustiger “would like to hear from you. He is doing fine and in good health. Please write through the Red Cross in Geneva. Verso, reply to Mr. Lustiger: “We are healthy and doing fine. Father does not work anymore; he is too old. Letters are received in two months’ time. Nitsch-Zamanek.”

Dimensions

8 1/2 x 5 1/2"

Keywords

Immigrants, Lustiger, Atlit, Red Cross, Nitsch Family, Palestine, Detention Centers, White Paper (1939)

Subcollection

Internment

Recommended Citation

"Atlit Detention Camp "Illegal" Jewish Immigrant Enquiry Letter from Manela Lustiger to Nitsch Family in Prague, Czechoslovakia" (1941). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2019.2.120.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/1495