Envelope from "Sara"

Authors

Object ID

2015.2.93

Object Name

Envelope

Date

1-6-1941

Files

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Description

Blue envelope with address written in black cursive ink. Printeed Luftpost emblem in bottom left, obscured by EXAMINER 1096 white censorship tape. Pieces of tape in the top left and right sides. Two stamps pasted in upper right: blue stamp of a man in profile facing left on top of a purple one of a man in profile facing left. A black circular hand stamp over each. Back: Return address written in black cursive ink on flap. Black Nazi eagle hand stamp on flap. White censorhip tape with Nazi eagle insignia across bottom. OPENED BY sticker on right side.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: Censored "Sara" cover from Martha Grossmann in Berlin to New York.

Dimensions

4 1/2 x 6 1/2"

Keywords

Taussig, Grossmann, Sara, Luftpost, Censored, Stamps, Reich Seal, New York, Germany, Berlin

Subcollection

Early

Recommended Citation

"Envelope from "Sara"" (1941). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2015.2.93.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/324