1946-11-24

Sydney

Soor, William (Willy)

displaced persons

M2012/020:001a

Digitised

width: 250.00 mm, height: 200.00 mm, Hungarian Letter sent from Willy Soor in Sydney to his mother, Franciska Soor (nee Epstein) and sister Klara Baneth (nee Soor) in a DP camp in Leipheim, German.

Handwritten letter and envelope from William (Willy) Soor in Sydney, Australia, to his mother Franciska Soor and sister Klara Baneth in a displaced persons camp in Leipheim, Germany. The letter is dated 24 November 1946 and written in Hungarian; it is three pages long, with the third page cut to roughly one quarter its original size. The envelope is stamped to show that the letter passed US Civil Censorship in Germany, and one end is covered with censor’s tape. The back is stamped ‘Berlin 3rd December 1946’.

He writes that he was the “Soor family’s disgrace (black sheep), whose only sin was that he opposed the social order, a regime who mothered a society whose basic law was mass murder, war and barbarism, shaming even wild animals, whose laws denied basic human rights, and the right to exist.” He is happy to hear news of the family and promises to do everything that is possible to send parcels of chocolate, tinned meat, or tinned fruit, “just ask what you wish for.”

Letters