"Beyond the Wall" – Letters from Countries under Nazi Occupation, 1943

Beyond the Wall: Letters from… lands under Nazi occupation. Palestine: [the Histadrut Executive Committee’s Diaspora Affairs Committee], April 1943.
A booklet, typewritten and mimeographed, containing 60 letters that had been sent from countries under Nazi occupation. Many of the letters are written in code, some of which is explicated in parentheses in the body of the text. The letters were sent between 1942 and 1943 from Poland, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, the (Czech) Protectorate, Bulgaria, Albania, Switzerland, a training unit in Germany (apparently the Neuendorf Farm, the last training farm in Germany, which was made into a labor camp in 1941, though the camp authorities allowed the inmates to continue to hold social and Zionist activities), and from prison camps in Germany, among other locations.
Some of the letters are written with such caution that even though they hint at ghettos, instances of death and murder, living in hiding, hunger and transports, the terrible situation of those who wrote them at this stage of the war is not evident.
53 pp., 20.5 cm. Good condition. Small tears at the edges of some of the pages. Stains on the cover. The front cover is partially detached.