Letter Sent to Dr. Alexander Distler at Netherne Hospital in Surrey, England from June Engel in Atlantic City, New Jersey

Authors

Object ID

2019.2.322

Object Name

Letter

Date

8-8-1952

Files

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Description

Blue folding letter/envelope, black handwriting, with a blue and red striped border around the address panel. Addressed to “Mr Alexander Distler” and stamped with the date “August 8 1952”.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Distler received mail from both June Engel and Dr. Alexander Bramson who were married after the war in 1946. Bramson was the Polish representative to the United Nations “Committee 17,” which established a legal definition of genocide.

This particular letter, from June Engel, written in German, was sent to Netherne Hospital in Surrey, England, a psychiatric facility where Distler was a patient for a time after the war.

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Dimensions

7 1/4 x 12"

Keywords

Alexander Distler, June Engel, Neterne Hospital

Subcollection

Distler, Personal

Recommended Citation

"Letter Sent to Dr. Alexander Distler at Netherne Hospital in Surrey, England from June Engel in Atlantic City, New Jersey" (1952). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2019.2.322.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/1644