Postcard from Doctor in Nice, France to Alexander Distler, Engineer in Austria

Authors

Object ID

2019.2.310

Object Name

Postcard

Date

6-14-1939

Files

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Description

Postcard with red and green postage, “CARTE POSTALE” printed in red near top, addressed to Alexander Distler in blue. Back dated “14.VI.39” in upper right corner in blue.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: Postcard, written in German, addressed to Alexander Distler, an Austrian engineer living in Vienna, just three weeks before he becomes a refugee fleeing Nazi-occupied Austria for Great Britain.

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Dimensions

4 x 6"

Keywords

Alexander Distler

Subcollection

Distler

Recommended Citation

"Postcard from Doctor in Nice, France to Alexander Distler, Engineer in Austria" (1939). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2019.2.310.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/1632