Nazi concentration camps

Scope and Contents The collection consists of seven letters written by political or criminal prisoners of the Nazi regime who resided in the Auschwitz camp system. The authors of these letter were prisoners who had the “privilege” of receiving and sending censored mail. Unlike the majority of the prisoners in the Auschwitz camp complex, these prisoners were allowed mail and food parcels. Since these letters were read and censored by the camp administration, the letters focus on such topics as weather, food...

Scope and Contents The collection consists of four letters from P.G. Wodehouse to journalist Angus Thuermer chiefly pertaining to Wodehouse's time in the Nazi concentration camp Tost in Poland and his present-day life in the New York City suburb of Remsenburg. The letters date from 1961 to 1975. Also included are twelve pieces of correspondence between Thuermer and others regarding his A.P. article on Wodehouse's incarceration in Tost first published in the "New York Times" in 1940 (1975-2008). A photograph of...