![A small postcard that was smuggled out of the Kovno ghetto to the child Sonia Cerny.](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/01_300.jpg?itok=erQfzkZ4)
It was sent to Sonia by her mother Pola and sister Nadia a short time before the ghetto was liquidated in July 1944
Yad Vashem Artifacts Collection
Donated by Sonia (Cerny) Perminger, Israel
![A small postcard that was smuggled out of the Kovno ghetto to the child Sonia Cerny.](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/01_300.jpg?itok=Mvnglguz)
![A letter that was smuggled out of the Kovno ghetto to the child Sonia Cerny](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/02_225.jpg?itok=CN2BiGmG)
It was sent to Sonia by her mother Pola and sister Nadia a short time before the ghetto was liquidated in July 1944
![A letter that was smuggled out of the Kovno ghetto to the child Sonia Cerny](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/02_225.jpg?itok=rV1niKDi)
![The Cerny family on holiday in the summer of 1936](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image/public/03_183.jpg?itok=VBinMmDU)
Pola and Grisha Cerny and their daughters Nadia and Sonia (the younger child)
![The Cerny family on holiday in the summer of 1936](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/03_183.jpg?itok=b8fuY02T)