Postcard from Hungarian KLV Camp

Authors

Object ID

2014.1.130

Object Name

Postcard

Date

1943

Files

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Description

Front: Tan postcard with green printed postcard lines, writing in blue ink, as well as red and purple hand stamps.Back: Message written in blue ink.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

1943 German censored postcard with "KLV LAGER (Ung.142)" cachet in purple from Karl Birnbaum to his father Johann in Vienna. Children would be evacuated from areas of Allied bombing raids and placed in KLV camps. In Karl's case he was in a KLV camp in Hungary (Palanka).

Dimensions

4 x 6"

Keywords

Hungarian

Subcollection

Internment

Recommended Citation

"Postcard from Hungarian KLV Camp" (1943). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2014.1.130.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/415