Theresienstadt Package Receipt Postcard

Authors

Object ID

2012.1.337

Object Name

Postcard

Date

4-6-1944

Files

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Description

Tan postcard addressed to Dr. Otto Kurz from Georg Wengraf in blue ink. Includes printed message with additions written in blue ink.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Postcard addressed to Dr. Otto Kurz in Switzerland, received 3/9/44. Two-line h/s 'REPLY MUST BE ON PCDS & IN GERMAN' Nazi OKW censor and three other censor markings. Formula printed card "thank you for your food parcel" to Dr. Otto Kurz-Switz, delivered by Nazi courier to Prague rather than Berlin, thus held only one month before being posted on 4.5.44; under franked, taxed on arrival, 4 different censor marks; 7-word message contrary to regulations, but posted anyway. Translation: "Dear ones: I acknowledge with thanks the receipt of your package March 1944. We are well and await information soon from you. George Wengraf."

Dimensions

4 x 5 3/4"

Keywords

Theresienstadt, Stamp, Banjor, Maine, Red Cross, Nazi, Courier, Berlin, Switzerland, Engr Rose Englander, Engr Englander, Otto Kurz, George Wengraf, Georg Wengraf

Subcollection

Ghettos

Recommended Citation

"Theresienstadt Package Receipt Postcard" (1944). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2012.1.337.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/1020