“Action mail” of the Reich Main Security Office (Jews).
This 212 page full color hardcover book describes in detail both the political and postal background of this operation. Never before has any study been published on this subject, let alone such a de tailed one! The postcards and letters describing this ‘Briefaktion’ are extremely rare silent witnesses to one of the darkest periods of our recent history. They show the last written words of people who were doomed to disappear in one of the greatest genocides the world has ever known.
The cooperation of several important archives such as Dossin, Yad Vashem, Auschwitz, Terezin, … have been able to contribute to the fact that this book gives an excellent picture of what the “Briefaktion” was in the various extermination camps such as Auschwitz, Sobibor, Maidanek, Treblinka, Birkenau, … and what its consequences were for the Jewish community in Europe. This book is “a must have” for any WW2 collector, and anyone concerned with the history of Judaism.