Postcard Commemorating 70th Anniversary of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Authors

Object ID

2016.1.52

Object Name

Postcard

Files

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Description

Front: reproduction of postcard sent in 1941 with large commemorative postage stamp at bottom left; Back: Black postcard lines with ‘JSR 6/16’ at bottom left.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: Image of censored postcard from Warsaw Ghetto with ”Warschau Judenrat” red stamp, sent by R. Rubenlicht in 1941. Israeli stamp with image of Pawel Frenkel, one of the heroes of the Jewish resistance in the Ghetto killed in June 1943.

Dimensions

3 3/4 x 5 3/4"

Keywords

Warsaw, Ghetto, Pawel Frenkel

Subcollection

Philatelic

Recommended Citation

"Postcard Commemorating 70th Anniversary of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising" (2016). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2016.1.52.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/1312