Postcard from Theresienstadt with Reply Instruction Cachet

Authors

Object ID

2012.1.333

Object Name

Postcard

Date

4-5-1944

Files

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Description

Tan postcard with black printed postcard lines. Addressed in pencil to Elfrieda Oppenheim from Herman Kahn. Includes message written in pencil.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: This postcard has a cachet reading "Ruckantwort nur auf Postkarten in deutscher Sprache," or “replies only by postcards in the German language”. This postcard from Mr. Hermann Kahn to Elfrieda Oppenheim in Kettwig in the city of Essen on the Ruhr river, thanks her for her packages—especially for the noodles and tomatoes.

Dimensions

4 1/8 x 5 3/4"

Keywords

Theresienstadt, Stamp, Charlattenburg, Herman Kahn, Elfrieda Oppenheim

Subcollection

Ghettos

Recommended Citation

"Postcard from Theresienstadt with Reply Instruction Cachet" (1944). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2012.1.333.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/1016