Postcard Package Receipt from Theresienstadt Ghetto

Authors

Object ID

2015.2.56

Object Name

Postcard

Date

4-9-1944

Files

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Description

Front: Tan postcard with black printed text and blanks with writing in green ink. Back: Black printed postcard lines. Return address written in upper lefthand corner in green ink. Address written on right in green ink. 11b stamp on left side. Pencil marking in upper righthand corner. Postcard written by (Gertruda) Trüde Shön (born January 21, 1900). Prisoner number 65152. Transported from Hradec Kralove, Czechoslovakia to Theresienstadt. Transported from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz October 9, 1944. She did not survive.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Postcard written by (Gertruda) Trüde Shön (born 21 January 1900). Prisoner number 65152. Transported from Hradec Kralove, Czechoslovakia to Theresienstadt on 17 Dec. 1942. Deported from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz extermination camp on 9 October 1944 where she was murdered.

Dimensions

4 x 6"

Keywords

Stamp, Ghetto, Theresienstadt, Beit Theresienstadt, Theresienstadt Martyrs Remembrance Association, Israel, Prisoner number 65152, Vienna, Austria, Auschwitz, Mahr-Oetrau, Karl Marz, Trude Shon, Gertruda Shon

Subcollection

Ghettos

Recommended Citation

"Postcard Package Receipt from Theresienstadt Ghetto" (1944). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2015.2.56.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/179