There is no escape

A final farewell

Please note: the following letter was written in 1944 by a Jewish teenager weeks before he was murdered. Unsurprisingly, it’s desperately sad. If you’re feeling fragile, you may want to give it a miss. Letter courtesy of Yad Vashem Archives – used with permission.

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Jews being rounded up in Budapest, October 1944. Photo: Bundesarchiv, Bild 101I-680-8285A-26 / Faupel / CC-BY-SA 3.0

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