Thank You Note from Bergen-Belsen Displaced Persons Camp

Authors

Object ID

2012.1.207ab

Object Name

Correspondence

Date

8-26-1948

Files

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Description

Envelope: Small envelope with typewritten address to Mrs. L. Hendler with four purple British stamps.Letter: Typewritten letter on Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad stationery. The letter is in English and signed by Ida Lichtenholz.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: A letter from the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad to Mrs. L. Hendler, Montreal, thanking her for the relief parcels received in Belsen Camp. This included a note that "The parcels received from the above named ladies were very good and we made full use of the contents. Mrs. Chait's food parcel was particularly acceptable, as at the present our small food stocks are being gradually exhausted!" Note envelope "Forces Mails" with 12p stamps (via Airmail) canceled with Field Post Office 745 obliterator.

Dimensions

a: 3 1/2 x 6" ; b: 9 3/4 x 8"

Keywords

Airmail, Bergen-Belsen, Displaced Persons Camp, DP, Displaced Persons, Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad, Montreal, Canada, L. Hendler

Subcollection

Bergen Belsen

Recommended Citation

"Thank You Note from Bergen-Belsen Displaced Persons Camp" (1948). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2012.1.207ab.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/887