Postcard from Belzyce Ghetto

Authors

Object ID

2015.2.138

Object Name

Postcard

Date

11-16-1940

Files

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Description

Front: Tan postcard with message written in purple pencil.Back: Printed postcard lines in brown with writing in purple pencil. Includes pencil markings on the bottom, black circular hand stamps, and a printed stamp on upper right with black Nazi eagle.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: General Government postcard from Erich Silbermann in the Belzyce Ghetto, Lublin district, to a Dr. Simonsohn in Hamburg, Germany, datelined November 16, 1940.

Dimensions

4 x 5 3/4"

Keywords

Ghetto, Stamp, General Gouvernement, Belzyce, Lublin, Hamburg, Silbermann, Simonsohn

Subcollection

Ghettos

Recommended Citation

"Postcard from Belzyce Ghetto" (1940). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2015.2.138.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/228