Envelope from Oranienburg Concentration Camp

Authors

Object ID

2014.1.339

Object Name

Envelope

Date

3-12-1938

Files

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Description

Front: Red Deutsches Reich stamp on upper right corner with Oranienburg handstamp over it. Block of printed text on right hand side including number [609] and block[73].

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: Cover from a prisoner named Hugo Kremers in the Orianienburg Concentration Camp near Berlin which was part of the larger Sachsenhausen concenttration camp complex and slave labor camp complex. Postmarked March 12, 1938. The sender was Hugo Kremers and is addressed to his family. Likely a political prisoner, either a communist or a dissident Nazi.

Dimensions

4.5 x 6.25"

Keywords

Orianienburg, Kremers, Sachsenhausen, Concentration camp, Prisoner

Subcollection

Concentratiom

Recommended Citation

"Envelope from Oranienburg Concentration Camp" (1938). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2014.1.339.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/596