Envelope from Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukraine

Authors

Object ID

2014.1.232

Object Name

Envelope

Date

3-18-1942

Files

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Description

Front: A tan envelope with writing in black ink. Includes a blue X across the envelope, as well as a pink postage stamp of Adolf Hitler, and blue and black hand stamps.Back: Writing in black ink.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Before Babi Yar there was Kamianets-Podilskyi. Over a two-day period in August 1941 almost 24,000 Jews were murdered near this city. Most of these Jews were Hungarian, and the remainder were Ukrainian. This cover was sent by the District Commissar's office seven months later.

Dimensions

4.5 x 6 3/8"

Keywords

Reich seal, Swastika, Ukraine

Subcollection

Ghettos

Recommended Citation

"Envelope from Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukraine" (1942). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2014.1.232.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/493