Object ID
2015.2.135
Object Name
Postcard
Date
3-12-1942
Files
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Description
Front: Tan postcard with writing in black cursive ink.Back: Printed purple postcard lines with writing in black cursive ink. Includes red, purple and black hand stamps, pencil markings, and two pasted stamps, including one red stamp showing a building, and one purple stamp showing a church.
Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:
General Gouvernement 30 pfg. Postcard with additional 1z., from J. Raufman at Kielce to Alfred Szwarcbaum, Lausanne, Switzerland, showing violet boxed "FLUGPOST." Nazi censor markings, dated March 13, 1942. Kielce was settled by Jews in 1819. They were expelled in 1845. The ban was lifted in 1863 and the population increased dramatically, having numbered 18,000 by the 1930s. This figure represents approximately 33 percent of the inhabitants of Kielce. The Germans entered Kielce on September 4, 1939 and a Judenrat was established soon thereafter. The Jewish population of Kielce swelled with the influx of deportees from other areas, including 7,500 from Vienna in 1941. Two ghettos were established in April 1941. The "Aktions" commenced in August of 1942 with the deportation of 21,000 Jews to Treblinka and the slaughter of another 3,000 in Kielce. The remaining 16,000 Jews were placed in the smaller ghetto and worked as slave laborers in the munitions factories and labor camps. The Judenrat members were murdered on November 20, 1942.
Dimensions
4 1/4 x 5 3/4"
Keywords
Lausanne, Kielce, Stamps, General Gouvernement, Switzerland, Censored, Ghetto, Judenrat, Deportation, Schwarzbaum, Schwarzbaum, Raufman
Subcollection
Ghettos, Rescue
Recommended Citation
"Postcard from Kielce Ghetto" (1942). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2015.2.135.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/225