Letter from the Warsaw Ghetto during the Holocaust - Rabbi Zvi Yechezkel Michelsohn

Long interesting autograph letter (4 pages), signed by the venerable R. "Zvi Yechezkel Michelsohn". Warsaw, February 1942.
In this letter sent to Mr. Giterman who was director of the JDC office in Warsaw, R. Michelsohn alludes to the harsh situation in the Warsaw Ghetto ("read between the lines as if this was written, not in black ink, but with my heart's blood…"). R. Michelsohn describes the grim economic situation, the dire deprivation and lack of clothing from which he suffered from the beginning of the war. He also tells of 30 of his sons and grandchildren who were sent to the Warsaw Ghetto, and about him being over 80 years old, frail and feeble.
R. Zvi Yechezkel Michelsohn - the Rabbi of Płońsk (1862-1942) was one of the most prominent rabbis of Poland. In 1885, he began to serve in the Krasnobród rabbinate following the directive of his rebbe, the author of the Sfat Emet of Gur, and in 1894 relocated to Płońsk to serve in its rabbinate. After WWI, he moved to Warsaw and was one of the eldest heads of the committee of rabbis who managed the rabbinate of that large city. A leading posek, famous orator and prolific author of dozens of books and essays on all Torah subjects, he was also celebrated as a historian and as a bibliographer. During the Holocaust, he was one of the only Warsaw rabbis to remain in the city, until he was deported, in August 1942, to the Treblinka extermination camp, where he perished. After his deportation, his son Mordechai brought three large chests with his father's writings to the archive of the Warsaw community, but they too were lost with time (see: Ela Ezkera, Vol. 2, pp. 195-202).
The recipient of the letter is Mr. Isaac Giterman, son of Rebbe Moshe Giterman of Kiev-Savran and grandson of Rebbe Mordechai Dov of Gornostaypol (Hornostaipil), representative of the JDC in Warsaw and in the Warsaw Ghetto. He was murdered by SS soldiers in 1943.
4 written pages, 29.5 cm. Good condition. Folding creases.