Postcard from Soviet Occupied Lvov to Basel, Switzerland

Authors

Object ID

2014.1.55

Object Name

Postcard

Date

11-27-1939

Files

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Description

Front: Black printed postcard lines with typewritten address. Includes a blue postal stamp, black hand stamp and pencil writing.Back: Typewritten message with handwritten signature.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: The city of Lvov in southeastern Poland was occupied by the Soviet Union in 1939, under the terms of the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact of August 1939. There were over 200,000 Jews in Lvov in September 1939, many of whom were refugees from German-occupied Poland. The Germans subsequently occupied Lvov after the invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941.

Dimensions

4 1/16 x 5 3/4"

Keywords

Helena Brandwein, Isydor Munzer, Soviet, Occupied

Subcollection

Early

Recommended Citation

"Postcard from Soviet Occupied Lvov to Basel, Switzerland" (1939). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2014.1.55.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/365