He continued desperately searching for any and all information regarding what had happened to his family beyond the end of the war — in 1946, H. Leivick went to the American occupied zone to tour the DP camps as part of a delegation and was asked by Zeitlin to find out what he could. He found where his nephew, David, had been buried after dying at Gauting Sanatorium. And happiness that there was even a physical grave to visit is absolutely heart-breaking.
From Leivick’s account: “Aaron Zeitlin specifically asked that we might find out all it is possible to discover in the camps about the fate of his family. I cannot forget a single sentence of Zeitlin’s in his letter which he gave to me en route, — sentences which follow me the entire time. From them, from the phrases, it is clear to me that Zeitlin already knows everything about the fate of all of his relations.”
(Zeitlin also wrote about his father Hillel for ‘Der Tog’ in 1952, which is available on the NLI’s ever-expanding collection of digitised issues.)
He continued desperately searching for any and all information regarding what had happened to his family beyond the end of the war — in 1946, H. Leivick went to the American occupied zone to tour the DP camps as part of a delegation and was asked by Zeitlin to find out what he could. He found where his nephew, David, had been buried after dying at Gauting Sanatorium. And happiness that there was even a physical grave to visit is absolutely heart-breaking.
From Leivick’s account: “Aaron Zeitlin specifically asked that we might find out all it is possible to discover in the camps about the fate of his family. I cannot forget a single sentence of Zeitlin’s in his letter which he gave to me en route, — sentences which follow me the entire time. From them, from the phrases, it is clear to me that Zeitlin already knows everything about the fate of all of his relations.”
(Zeitlin also wrote about his father Hillel for ‘Der Tog’ in 1952, which is available on the NLI’s ever-expanding collection of digitised issues.)