Sofia Dutka, Correspondence from Ravensbrueck (Ravensbruck) female concentration camp, 1941-1944 | Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust

By Dr. Vladimir Melamed

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Collection Overview

Title: Sofia Dutka, Correspondence from Ravensbrueck (Ravensbruck) female concentration camp, 1941-1944

Predominant Dates:1941, 1943

ID: RG-107/RG-107

Primary Creator: Sofia Dutka (Dutkowna), prisoner of the female concentration camp Ravensbrueck (1941 -- 1943)

Extent: 1.0 Boxes

Languages: German

Abstract

Sofia Dutka (Zofia Dutkowna), a Polish woman, was incarcerated in Ravensbrueck (Ravensbruck) female concentration camp from 1941 through 1944. She wrote letters on the officially provisioned letter-form to her family member addressing those Dear Siblings. Letters addressed to a single person, perhaps one of her sisters, namely, Rozalia Dutka in the village of Mordarka near Limanowa (Limanowa county) of the Vojevodstwo Malopolskie (West Little Poland or West Galicia). In the wartime, under the German occupation it was officially renamed as General Government (Gouvernement)

Scope and Contents of the Materials

This Collection comprises letters on the camp official letter forms send from the Ravensbrueck (Ravensbruck) female concentration camp by Sofia Dutka (Zofia Dutka or Dutkowna), addressed to one of her sisters Rozalia Dutka. All correspondences were censored. These correspondences are written in German, not a native language of Sofia Dutka. It is regarded it was either her or someone on her behalf narrated these letters. Concentration camp regulations provisioned correspondence only in German language.

Collection Historical Note

It is believed that Sofia Dutka (Zofia Dutkowna) was incarcerated as political prisoner. Her correspondences from the Ravensbrueck (Ravensbruck) female concentration camp lasted from 1941 through 1944.

Biographical Note

Sofia Dutka (Dutkowna) was a prisoner of the female concentration camp Ravensbrueck in Germany, 1941 -- 1943

Subject/Index Terms

Correspondence from and to the female concentration camp Ravensbrueck, Germany
Documents in German language
Dutka, Sofia, Polish prisoner
Female prisoners of the German concentration camps
German concentration camps, censored correspondences, Sofia Dutka, Ravensbrueck (Ravensbruck) camp
German concentration camps, letter forms
German concentration camps correspondences, censored
German concentration camps letters, censored, Ravensbrueck (Ravensbruck) female concentration camp
German concentration camps terms and conditions for correspondence, Ravensbrueck (Ravensbruck) camp
German concentration camps terms and conditions for correspondence, wartime
Letters to family members from German concentration camps, Sofia Dutka, Ravensbrueck camp, wartime
Mordarka (Poland)
Narratives in German language
Ravensbrueck (Germany: Concentration Camp)
Rozalia Dutkowna (Dutka), sister and addressee of the letters sent by Sofia Dutka from Ravensbrueck
Sofia Dutka (Dutkowna), prisoner of the female concentration camp Ravensbrueck
Sofia Dutka (Zofia Dutkowna), prisoner numbers, Ravensbrueck (Ravensbruck) female concentration camp
Sofia Dutka, correspondences to Rozalia Dutka from Ravensbrueck concentration camp, 1941 -- 1944
Stanislaw Dutka, brother of Sofia Dutka imprisoned in Ravensbrueck concentration camp
Stanislaw Dutka, Labor camp Zalaber, brother of Sofia Dutka in Ravensbrueck

Box and Folder Listing

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 8: RG-107.08, Sofia Dutka (Dutkowna), letter from Ravensbrueck concentration camp for women, 21 March 1942, March 21, 1942

A letter from Sofia Dutka (Zofia Dutkowna) from the Ravensbrueck female concentration camp to her sister Rozalia Dutka in the village of Mordarka near Limanowa, Western Galicia, Poland

Translation:

“My dear children. I have to thank you for your festive letter. But I only got knowledge about that everything might be good for you. I thank you for your wishes and my thoughts are always with you especially with … You told me that you have new neighbors and that … think of me. But this is all that I could get from the letter, because the other parts were not readable. Please write so, that the letters are readable for me as a whole. […] “

Subject/Index Terms:: Sofia Dutka, correspondences to Rozalia Dutka from Ravensbrueck concentration camp, 1941 -- 1944

Creators:: Sofia Dutka (Dutkowna), prisoner of the female concentration camp Ravensbrueck (1941 -- 1943)