Letter from Flossenburg Concentration Camp

Authors

Object ID

2014.1.341

Object Name

Letter

Date

11-24-1940

Files

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Description

Front: 'Konzentrationslager Florenburg' printed in red in top left along with written in number [1205] and block [7]. Handwritten message in pencil. Back: Second half of letter, with purple circular hand stamp 'D' and "25" written in pencil on bottom.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

The Flossenburg concentration camp was established in 1938 in Bavaria, near the border with Czechoslovakia. Prisoners were used as slave labor to extract granite from the quarry and as well in the German armaments industry. Approximately one-third of the prisoners who passed through Flossenburg perished from malnutrition, disease, overwork and executions.

Dimensions

8 1/4 x 5 7/8"

Keywords

Flossenburg, Concentration Camp

Subcollection

Concentration

Recommended Citation

"Letter from Flossenburg Concentration Camp" (1940). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2014.1.341.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/598