32 Postkarten

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32 Postkarten is a literature and art project that has been devised and coordinated by Torkel S. Wächter. It retells the story of a German-Jewish family from the outbreak of the Second World War to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The authentic postcards, with English and German translations, and commentaries, are being published on the Internet from March 2010 in 'simulated real time' - on the date they were written, but 70 years later - at www.32postkarten.com.{{cite journal|title=32 Postkarten|journal=The Historical Association}}

It all started ten years ago, when Mr Wächter discovered a number of packing cases in an attic in Stockholm. They contained letters, diaries, old exercise books, newspaper cuttings and a cigar box with black-and-white photographs inside.{{cite web |url=http://www.mynewsdesk.com/il/view/pressrelease/32-rediscovered-postcards-from-the-second-world-war-389542 |title=32postkarten.com Israel - 32 rediscovered postcards from the Second World War. - Mynewsdesk |website=www.mynewsdesk.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120328114245/http://www.mynewsdesk.com/il/view/pressrelease/32-rediscovered-postcards-from-the-second-world-war-389542 |archive-date=2012-03-28}} And above all, in a plastic bag, the 32 postcards written by Mr Wächter's grandparents in Hamburg and posted to his father in Sweden just before the Holocaust.

Given its postcard-length format, the material is well suited for the teaching of secondary and tertiary level history and German in schools. The material will remain available online well after the publication of the last postcard in December 2011.{{cite web |url=http://www.swedishbookreview.com/news.php#i20102 |title=Swedish Book Review - 2010:2 Issue |website=www.swedishbookreview.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110125114253/http://www.swedishbookreview.com/news.php |archive-date=2011-01-25}}

In March 2014, 32 Postkarten - Post aus Nazi-Deutschland, {{ISBN|9783862822928}}, will be published by ACABUS-Verlag.{{cite web|language=de |url=http://www.acabus-verlag.de/vorschau_45/2014_61/32-postkarten-post-aus-nazi-deutschland_9783862822928.htm |title=32 Postkarten – Post aus Nazi-Deutschland |publisher=ACABUS Verlag |access-date=2014-03-12 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140301162852/http://www.acabus-verlag.de/vorschau_45/2014_61/32-postkarten-post-aus-nazi-deutschland_9783862822928.htm |archive-date=1 March 2014}}https://www.facebook.com/32postkarten {{User-generated source|certain=yes|date=March 2022}}