Package Receipt, Rosa Ornstein, from Theresienstadt Ghetto

Authors

Object ID

2015.2.54

Object Name

Postcard

Date

7-11-1944

Files

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Description

Front: Tan postcard with printed black text and blanks, with black writing in cursive. Some writing in pencil in lower righthand corner. Back: Black printed postcard lines. Return address written in black ink on upper lefthand corner. Address written in black ink on right side. Black stamp across length of the top. 11b stamp in blue on left side. Purple pasted stamp of Hitler in profile facing left on right top corner.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Package receipt acknowledgement sent by Elizabeth Rosa Ornstein (Born May 2, 1896) on July 7, 1944. Rosa was prisoner number 46606 at Theresienstadt, having been transported from Vienna, Austria to Theresienstadt. She was deported from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz - three months after receiving this package - on October 6, 1944, where she was murdered.

Dimensions

4 x 5 1/4"

Keywords

Stamp, Ghetto, Theresienstadt, Beit Theresienstadt, Theresienstadt Martyrs Remembrance Association, Israel, Dopisnice, Prisoner number 46606, Vienna, Austria, Auschwitz, Elizabeth Rosa Ornstein

Subcollection

Ghettos

Recommended Citation

"Package Receipt, Rosa Ornstein, from Theresienstadt Ghetto" (1944). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2015.2.54.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/177