Postcard from Piaski, Poland

Authors

Object ID

2014.1.151

Object Name

Postcard

Date

4-22-1942

Files

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Description

Front: Tan postcard with purple printed postcard lines and stamp. Includes writing in pencil.Back: Message written in pencil.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Postcard from Piaski, Lublin, Poland, from Dr. Bernard Wolfenstein to Hilda Schmitz in Brunn, Bohemia, Moravia. Lublin at this time was part of the German "General Government,” an administrative unit not incorporated into the Reich. The ghetto in Lublin was ultimately the first to be liquidated.

Dimensions

4 x 6"

Keywords

Lublin, Ghetto, Wolfenstein

Subcollection

Ghettos

Recommended Citation

"Postcard from Piaski, Poland" (1942). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2014.1.151.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/435