Postcard from Warsaw Ghetto to the USSR

Authors

Object ID

2012.1.514

Object Name

Postcard

Date

5-16-1941

Files

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Description

Postcard with message written in Polish. Includes purple printed postcard lines.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

A postcard from the Warsaw Ghetto addressed to Bobrojsk, USSR. A 30GR General Government postcard from mother named A. Zak to her children; written in Polish and has boxed red 'Judenrat Warschau' Jewish censor mark at upper left. Translation: "Dear children your packages, letters & cards received here, thanks.... We try to reply weekly, hope you are receiving our mail... Please write often, you are our sole source for news... We are well, but could be better... We have just met Mania, Avram & Josek, also saw grandmother, she is here, and well, do try to send us some tea... I still have hope, kisses to you all..." The card was delayed by censor and cancelled Warschau 6.V.41; Nazi circular censor H/S at front; Russian receiving CDS 16.5.42 also at front. Six weeks later, the Nazis invaded the USSR.

Dimensions

4 1/2 x 5 3/4"

Keywords

Zak, Warsaw, Ghetto, Bobrojsk, Warschau, Censor

Subcollection

Ghettos

Recommended Citation

"Postcard from Warsaw Ghetto to the USSR" (1941). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2012.1.514.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/1229