Object ID
2014.1.165
Object Name
Postcard
Date
4-7-1943
Files
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Description
Front: A Postkarte with text and lines printed in purple. Includes return and mailing addresses, several red hand stamps, and a purple postal stamp in the upper-right corner. The cachet in the lower-left corner reads: "Catch coal pilferage. He who robs power and coal cannot be tolerated." Back: Letter written in black ink on the entirety of the page.
Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:
Censored cover from a prisoner in the labor camp of Ammerfeld Bei Rain, Lech, Germany to the Ukraine. Worker is known as an “Ostarbeiter.” In a “Gemeinschaftslager” or Civil Work Camp. The cachet on the lower left of the card reads: "catch coal pilferage. He who robs power and coal cannot be tolerated."
Dimensions
4 x 6"
Keywords
Labor Camp, Prisoner, Ostarbeiter Ammerfeld Bei Rain, Lech, Germany, Ukraine
Subcollection
Labor
Recommended Citation
"Ukrainian Ostarbeiter Postcard" (1943). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2014.1.165.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/38