Postcard from Theresienstadt Ghetto

Authors

Object ID

2014.1.127

Object Name

Postcard

Date

1944

Files

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Description

Front: Printed black postcard lines with black cursive address and return address.Back: A handwritten message in black ink.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: A card from Theresienstadt Ghetto with a full message permitted by the Germans for propaganda purposes -- to send "happy" messages to people outside the ghetto. The message had to be written in German and censored.

Dimensions

5 7/8 x 4 1/8"

Keywords

Theresienstadt, Ghetto, German, Emanuel Neumann

Subcollection

Ghettos

Recommended Citation

"Postcard from Theresienstadt Ghetto" (1944). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2014.1.127.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/412