Modliborzyce Ghetto in Lublin District Postcard from Judenrat to RELICO

Authors

Object ID

2015.2.125

Object Name

Postcard

Date

1942

Files

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Description

Front: Tan postcard with black printed text and dotted lines, filled in with blue cursive ink. Includes a long red line through the card, and other red text, as well as numerical and date hand stamps. Back: Black printed postcard lines and address. Includes long red hand stamp across top of card, purple and black hand stamps, pasted purple stamp of a church on upper right, and several pencil markings.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Censored "RELICO" card from Frieda Gold of the ghetto at Modliborzyce with the cachet of the JUDENRAT in violet to the RELICO Committee acknowledging receipt of parcels. Modliborzyce was a small village in Poland's Lublin district. With the German occupation, the Jewish community swelled to 2000 with refugees arriving from Vienna in 1941. In October 1942 the ghetto was liquidated with the Jews being deported to Belzec death camp. RELICO was an organization established in September 1939 by Dr. Abraham Silberschein to provide assistance to Jewish refugees and to help search for missing relatives.

Dimensions

4 x 6"

Keywords

Stamp, Judenrat, Censored, Relico, Ghetto, Modliborzyce, Lublin, Poland, Vienna, Deportation, Belzec, Frieda Gold, Abraham Silberschein

Subcollection

Ghettos, Rescue

Recommended Citation

"Modliborzyce Ghetto in Lublin District Postcard from Judenrat to RELICO" (1942). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2015.2.125.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/214