Postcard Sent from Westerbork Camp

Authors

Object ID

2014.1.161

Object Name

Postcard

Date

1-6-1943

Files

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Description

Front: Tan postcard with green printed postcard lines and stamp. Includes writing in black ink and black hand stamps.Back: Message written in black ink.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: Postcard from Westerbork, a transit camp in the Netherlands from which Jews were typically deported to death camps such as Auschwitz. Among the many prisoners who passed through this camp were Anne Frank and Etty Hillesum, both diarists who were eventually deported to Auschwitz.

Dimensions

3 1/2 x 5 1/2"

Keywords

Westerbork, Netherlands

Subcollection

Netherlands, Transit

Recommended Citation

"Postcard Sent from Westerbork Camp" (1943). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2014.1.161.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/443