Korespondencja obozowa Witolda i Łucji Nełkowskich w świetle dokumentów Archiwum Muzeum Stutthof
The Concentration Camp Correspondence Between Witold and Łucja Nełkowski in Light of the Documents of the Archive of the Stutthof Museum

Summary/Abstract: The Archive of the Stutthof Museum contains the hitherto unpublished concentration camp correspondence of Witold Nełkowski, one of thousands of victims of the campaign of extermination of the Polish elites and all members of Polish society who were a danger to the policies of the Third Reich that began in Pomerania and the Danzig region after the outbreak of the war on September 1, 1939. The letters that Witold Nełkowski sent to his wife were mailed from Pröbbernau, a subcamp of Stutthof. The preserved correspondence demonstrates that his wife Łucja Nełkowska looked for her husband in the fall of 1940 in other concentration camps as well (KL Dachau and KLMauthausen-Gusen). These edited letters are the basis for this article. This text is an attempt at a synthetic presentation of the camp epistolography of the Nełkowskis, which is a kind of document of concentration camp life that presents an individual perspective, which is fundamental in the humanities. Sources such as the letters of concentration camp inmates are within the category of personal documents and thus enrich studies of the Second World War.

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