Letter (in Yiddish) handwritten and signed by Rebbetzin "Fruma Rappaport". Jambul, Kazakhstan, 1944. In this letter sent to Tel Aviv to Rabbi Yehuda Meir Avramowitz, she thanks for the packages of food and wheat sent to her with the name of her husband "Written Rabbi David HaCohen, author of Tzemach David and Mikdash David". At that time, more than two years had elapsed since the death of her husband in Tishrei 1941 at a faraway labor-camp, but from this letter it is clear that she still did not know of his demise because she was in a different region at the time. Evidently, the letter was written in Shevat 1944 – Monday of Parshat Mishpatim, and it only arrived in Tel Aviv in November 1944, Cheshvan-Kislev 1945. Rebbetzin Fruma Rappaport, the youngest daughter of Rabbi Chaim Ber Greengross of Kremenchuk [died in 1928, father-in-law of Rabbi Shlomo Harkabi, Rabbi Avraham Ya'akov Gordon, Rabbi Baruch Ya'akov Zemodzak and other leading mussar figures and heads of Lithuanian yeshivot], in 1931 married Rabbi David Rappaport, author of Mikdash David (1891-1942), a head of the Ohel Torah Yeshiva in Baranavichy, headed by Rabbi Elchanan Wasserman. With the outbreak of World War II, Rabbi David Rappaport together with his wife and the students of the Baranovichi Yeshiva fled to Lithuania. After the German and Russian invasion of Lithuania, Rabbi Rappaport stood at the helm of the yeshiva [Rabbi Elchanan Wasserman was trapped and killed in Kovno]. During the Red Army occupation of Lithuania in the summer of 1941, the Russians arrested him and sent him deep into Russian territory, to a labor camp near Petrozavodsk, which is one of the most bitterly cold areas in Russia. Rabbi David did not survive the extreme conditions of cold and hunger and perished after Teki’at Shofar of the second day of Rosh Hashanah 1941. At his death, he requested those who around him “Witness my death so that my wife will not remain an agunah, because this is the law”. His wife, Rebbetzin Fruma exiled to another end of Russia, and from this letter written from Kazakhstan, it is apparent that she did not know of her husband’s death two years later. We do not know what happened to the Rebbetzin. The recipient is Rabbi Yehuda Meir Avramovitz, one of the heads of Agudat Yisrael, involved in the campaign of sending food-packages to yeshiva refugees in Russia that were trapped during the war in Siberia and in other distant Russian places. The Krinik Rabbi Chizkiyahu Yosef Mishkovsky stood at the head of this campaign. Postcard, 14 cm. Good-fair condition, major wear. Various postmarks from Russia and from Tel Aviv.