{"id":32505,"date":"2019-05-03T03:31:43","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T10:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/?p=32505"},"modified":"2019-05-01T15:21:08","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T22:21:08","slug":"last-letters-online-exhibit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/2019\/05\/03\/last-letters-online-exhibit\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Letters online exhibit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><em>Susan-Zsuzsa and Lili Klein (photo from Yad Vashem via Ashernet)<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_32507\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32507\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/may-03-toc.03.299T8-Last-Letters-yad-vashem.Susan-and-Lilis-letter-to-their-father_Yad-Vashem.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-32507\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/may-03-toc.03.299T8-Last-Letters-yad-vashem.Susan-and-Lilis-letter-to-their-father_Yad-Vashem.jpg\" alt=\"photo - letter Susan-Zsuzsa and Lili Klein to their father\" width=\"400\" height=\"601\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/may-03-toc.03.299T8-Last-Letters-yad-vashem.Susan-and-Lilis-letter-to-their-father_Yad-Vashem.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/may-03-toc.03.299T8-Last-Letters-yad-vashem.Susan-and-Lilis-letter-to-their-father_Yad-Vashem-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32507\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>(photo from Yad Vashem via Ashernet)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On April 13, 1944, sisters Susan-Zsuzsa and Lili Klein (in photo) wrote their father Hugo a short letter: \u201cDear Daddy, We are well \u2013 goodbye.\u201d Hugo had been drafted into a forced labour battalion in 1943; his wife Matild had stayed with their two daughters in their hometown of Hencida in the Bihar district of Hungary. Hugo survived the war, but Matild, Susan-Zsuzsa, 9, and Lili, 7, were deported to Auschwitz on May 24, 1944, and murdered shortly after their arrival.<\/p>\n<p>Exactly 75 years later, Susan-Zsuzsa and Lili\u2019s letter is among a dozen last letters included in Yad Vashem\u2019s latest online exhibition, Last Letters from the Holocaust: 1944, presented to mark Israel\u2019s Holocaust Martyrs\u2019 and Heroes\u2019 Remembrance Day. Many of the documents included in the exhibition (yadvashem.org\/yv\/en\/exhibitions\/last-letters\/1944\/index.asp), as well as the photographs, were donated to Yad Vashem as part of its national Gathering the Fragments campaign. Together with the tens of thousands of Holocaust-era artifacts and artworks in Yad Vashem\u2019s collections, these historical testimonies are due to be conserved and stored in the new Shoah Heritage Collections Centre, part of a new campus being built on the Mount of Remembrance in Jerusalem.<strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Susan-Zsuzsa and Lili Klein (photo from Yad Vashem via Ashernet) On April 13, 1944, sisters Susan-Zsuzsa and Lili Klein (in photo) wrote their father Hugo a short letter: \u201cDear Daddy, We are well \u2013 goodbye.\u201d Hugo had been drafted into a forced labour battalion in 1943; his wife Matild had stayed with their two daughters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4329],"tags":[4242,53,5973],"class_list":["post-32505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-israel","tag-history","tag-holocaust","tag-letter-writing"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}