Feldpost Letter from Auschwitz III Monowitz

Authors

Object ID

2014.1.351

Object Name

Letter

Date

9-18-1944

Files

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Description

Front: Printed 'Feldpost' at top center; handwritten address in purple pencil Back: handwritten in pencil.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: SS Feldpost from German officer at Monowitz-Buna, otherwise known as Auschwitz III, slave labor for I.G. Farben plant, to Leipzig. Letter written 5 days after bombing by 96 B-24 liberators.

Dimensions

4 x 5 1/2"

Keywords

Monowitz-Buna Auschwitz Auschwitz III

Subcollection

Concentration

Recommended Citation

"Feldpost Letter from Auschwitz III Monowitz" (1944). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2014.1.351.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/606