F05_P10: Concentration Camp Auschwitz
1940 December 16, Front side - Post card from Auschwitz with information regarding permitted and forbidden items to be sent to prisoners.
Tan post card with printed German in black ink. Cursive handwriting in black ink is also present at the sender's address and recipient's address. A dark-green 6-pfennig stamp depicting President Paul von Hindenburg facing to the left is present. Overtop, a black ink cancellation dated December 16, 1940 is present.
Name/Title
F05_P10: Concentration Camp AuschwitzEntry/Object ID
2007.5.10Scope and Content
1940 December 16, post card from Auschwitz with information regarding permitted and forbidden items to be sent to prisoners.Context
Compared to later conditions, treatment of prisoners during the first year was relatively humane. A printed announcement from the camp commandant on the back of this December 16, 1940, formular post card stated, "Each prisoner may have a packet weighing one kilogram sent to him by relatives for Christmas, but not as a packet with money order. Permitted: bread, Christmas pastries, winter sausage, tobacco products, toilet articles. Forbidden: enclosures of money, canned jelly, stamps, photographs, letters, and flammable materials such as lighters, matches, etc. For delivery the packet should have the most correct address, including the birthdate and prisoner number. The packet must be sent in the period from December 10, 1940, to January 5, 1941. All incoming packages that do not conform to camp regulations will be confiscated for the benefit of prisoners who receive no packet from home."Collection
Nazi Scourge I: Primary ExhibitionCategory
Post Card
Philatelic Material