Red Cross letter concerning Erwin Fuchs' parents

Name/Title

Red Cross letter concerning Erwin Fuchs' parents

Entry/Object ID

502.88.2025

Scope and Content

A typed letter dated 4 Sep 1946 from the London-based "War Organization of the British Red Cross Society and Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Foreign Relations Department", informing Erwin Fuchs that his parents are dead. They attempted to commit suicide in the summer of 1944. His father succeeded, his mother did not. She was subsequently deported to Auschwitz where she was killed. The letter is written on Red Cross stationary, with a red cross in the upper left corner and black circular insignia of the organization in the upper right corner.