Prison MASH in a Minsk jail cell - manuscript from the 1940s.

[Prison Mass -manuscript ]. Meditations on the Mass conducted in a cell of a prison in Minsk between 1939 and 1941.
Double-sided manuscript on 5 cards form. 29,8x21 cm. On the first page a short text explaining the circumstances of the manuscript: "The following poem is a prayer framed in poetic form [...] celebrated collectively in a Soviet prison [...]. Arrested in October 1939, Ms. L., a middle school teacher in Grodno, spent 21 months in the harshest conditions in a prison in Minsk. As an educational and social activist, she was examined by 33 investigating judges, tormented and beaten. While in her cell, she established spiritual contact with her fellow miserable women, even with non-denominational communists, to whom she explained our faith, liturgy, even our customs [...]. After the first bombings, the prison was evacuated. For 3 days and 3 nights, about 10,000 unfortunates were rushed on foot to Mogilev, thousands of whom were shot along the way when they could not manage to follow the others [...]. From her daughter's memoirs, her mother, Mrs. A. S. captured the meditations of the Mass in the Minsk prison in the rhythm of poetry." The remaining 8 pages are taken up by a prayer-consideration preceded by the date "Minsk, May 15, 1941, prison cell 163".
"Sunday - May morning,
Do you hear my dear ones? - Quiet your conversations!
Hear the bells sounding over the blue river,
Over the Vistula, the Raba, the Warta, the Niemen and the Vilnia?
From these rivers - true - Minsk lies far away,
But these bells ring in our hearts [...]".
Folding marks, minor stains, good condition.