Remembering the Shoah

"I should like someone to remember that there once lived a person named David Berger." -David Berger in his last letter, Vilna 1941

The Story of David Berger

David Berger was born and grew up in the Polish town of Przemysl. When the war broke out, in 1939, he fled from the invading German forces, ending up in Vilna (Vilnius). While in Vilna he corresponded with his friend, Elsa, who had managed to leave Poland for British-controlled Palestine in 1938. In this postcard he bid Elsa farewell, assuming that he would not survive.

He was shot in Vilna in July 1941. He was 19 years old.

The letters were donated to the “Masuah Archives” at the Institute of Holocaust Studies, Kibbutz Tel Yitzchak, by Elsa, where they can be found under file number PO-1613.