Envelope from Dzikowiec Ghetto

Authors

Object ID

2015.2.142

Object Name

Envelope

Date

5-11-1941

Files

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Description

Green envelope with writing in black cursive ink. Includes purple and black hand stamps, and two green pasted stamps in upper right depicting a piazza with a statue in it.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Envelope postmarked May 11, 1941 Rzeszow franked General Government with violet circular date stamp JUDENRAT DZIKOWIEC RAD ZYDOWSKA and boxed DZIKOWIEC uber Rzeszow alongside. Dzikowiec was a small shtetl a few miles north of the regional capital of Rzeszow, connected with the Jews of neighboring shtetlach and sharing cultural, academic, social and economic interests: cemeteries, butchers, bakers, etc.

Dimensions

4 1/2 x 7"

Keywords

Dzikowiec, Kreishauptmaunsehaft, Reichsof, Stamp, Rzeszow, General Gouvernement, Judenrat

Subcollection

Ghettos

Recommended Citation

"Envelope from Dzikowiec Ghetto" (1941). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2015.2.142.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/232