Postcard from Arbeitslager to RELICO

Authors

Object ID

2015.2.140

Object Name

Postcard

Date

6-24-1944

Files

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Description

Front: Tan postcard with printed black text in French and writing in purple pencil. Several black and purple hand stamps.Back: Black printed postcard lines and address. Includes several red and black hand stamps, and a blue stripe diagonal across the page.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Unfranked RELICO postcard with censor marks and chemical censor, printed card from Abraham Taub who writes from a work camp Jowischovitz in Upper Silesia to Comité RELICO (Relief Committee for the Warstricken Jewish Population), founded by Abraham Silberschein, in Geneva Switzerland, dated June 24, 1944.

Dimensions

4 x 5 3/4"

Keywords

Ghetto, Stamp, Reich Seal, Red Cross, Censored, Poland, Brzesk, Relico, Abraham Taub

Subcollection

Ghettos, Rescue

Recommended Citation

"Postcard from Arbeitslager to RELICO" (1944). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2015.2.140.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/230