Dozens of letters from Jews in Poland, which were brought by an Israeli family who visited the country in 1939, have never been opened. As reported in the Ha’aretz newspaper, Hannh Tikotzky and her daughters made a family trip from Tel Aviv to Poland in 1939. They returned to Israel with hundreds of letters from Jews in Poland who later perished to their families in Palestine.
According to Ha’aretz, in October, 1940, Tikotzky published her address in a newspaper article in October, 1940, listing names of addressees and inviting people to pick up their letters at her home in Tel Aviv between 2 and 4 p.m. Tikotzky’s daughter, 80, who still lives in Tel Aviv, said she has a crate of unopened letters written in Yiddish that her mother left her. Gidi Poraz, who specializes in tracing lost family members, found the story of the letters and contacted Tikotzky.
“Obviously most of those people perished,” Poraz told Ha’aretz. “Perhaps this was the last letter they ever sent to Israel. This lady sat between 2 and 4 in the afternoon ready to distribute the letters. But how many people could come to Tel Aviv in 1940 from all over the country to get the letters?