Postcard from Tartu to Rakvere, Estonia

Authors

Object ID

2014.1.246

Object Name

Postcard

Date

10-2-1941

Files

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Description

Front: An illustration of white flowers, a candle, several pieces of paper, and a teacup with a printed caption.Back: An off-white postcard with black printed postcard lines, as well as a message and address written in black ink. Includes two green postage stamps, as well as one black hand stamp.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: Estonia was included in the Reich Commissariat Ostland along with Lithuania, Latvia and western Belorussia. Before the end of the year most of the Jews who had not been able to escape into Russia were murdered by the Einsatzgruppe A, led by Walter Stahlecker, with the assistance of police units and Estonian collaborators. There were no ghettos created during the German occupation in Estonia.

Dimensions

3 9/16 x 5 1//2"

Keywords

Tartu, Rakvere, Estonia, Candle, Flower, Vase, Teacup, Saucer

Recommended Citation

"Postcard from Tartu to Rakvere, Estonia" (1941). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2014.1.246.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/506