Object ID
2015.2.126
Object Name
Postcard
Date
6-5-1942
Content Warning
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Description
Front: Tan postcard with writting in black cursive ink. Several words in pencil are interspersed through the message. Back: Printed purple postcard lines with writing in black cursive ink. Includes a red stamp along the left side, black and blue hand stamps, several pencil markings, and a printed purple stamp on upper right depicting a church.
Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:
Censored General Gouvernement postcard MIEDZYRZEC, LUBLIN DISTRICT, dated June 5, 1942. From Julius Weiss to Engineer Alexander in Bratislava. Violet "JUDENRAT IM MIEDZYRZEC..." cachet and Nazi censor alongside. Miedzyrzec Podlaski was a center of Jewish cultural life for centuries. After the German invasion in 1939, a Judenrat was formed and many inhabitants were sent to labor camps. In late August 1942, several months after this card was written, 12,000 Jews were herded into the city square where 1,000 were shot and the rest deported to Treblinka. A ghetto was established under Judenrat management. Deportations to Treblinka continued, with the last 1,000 Jews being sent to Majdanek.
Dimensions
4 x 5 3/4"
Keywords
Stamp, Censored, General Gouvernemen, t Miedzyrezec, Lublin, Bratislava, Miedzyrzec Podlaski, Mezrich, Judenrat, Deportation, Treblinka, Ghetto, Majdanek, Julius Weiss, Ing. Alexander
Subcollection
Ghettos
Recommended Citation
"Postcard from Miedzyrzec Podlaski" (1942). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2015.2.126.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/215
Rights Statement
