Postcard from Lithuania, Censored in Palestine

Authors

Object ID

2014.1.230

Object Name

Postcard

Date

9-3-1940

Files

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Description

Front: A tan postcard with orange printed postcard lines and text. Includes writing in black ink, blue and pink postage stamps, as well as purple and black hand stamps.Back: Message written in black ink.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: Postcard written in Yiddish, censored in Palestine, dated 1940, approximately nine months before the Nazi occupation of Kovno, Lithuania.

Dimensions

4 1/8 x 5 7/8"

Keywords

Yiddish, Censored, Lithuania, Palenstine

Recommended Citation

"Postcard from Lithuania, Censored in Palestine" (1940). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2014.1.230.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/491