F01_P09: Concentration Camp Buchenwald
1941 December 2, Front side - Envelope from inmate Viktor Breuzel at Buchenwald concentration camp.
Tan envelope with printed text and outline in German using black ink. Cursive handwriting in German using black ink. At the top right corner, a red 12-pfennig stamp depicting President Paul von Hindenburg facing to the left. Overtop, a black ink cancellation dated December 2, 1941. Another artifact lays overtop on the exhibit page. The foundation is promptly working to update this scan.
Name/Title
F01_P09: Concentration Camp BuchenwaldEntry/Object ID
2008.4.9.a-bScope and Content
1941 December 2, envelope and letter from inmate Viktor Breuzel at Buchenwald concentration camp.Context
Buchenwald, located on the Ettersberg mountain 10 kilometers outside Weimar, opened in May 1937. At its peak, the camp held about 80,000 inmates. An illegal resistance organization, the International Camp Committee (ILK), began recruiting among the prisoners in 1943. On April 11, 1945, the ILK staged an armed uprising, and arrested the SS personnel who had not fled as Allied forces advanced deep into Germany. Two days later, the United States Army arrived. Buchenwald was the only concentration camp to be liberated by its inmates. A money order receipt for 10 reichsmarks sent to Viktor Breuzel, a Buchenwald prisoner, was postmarked December 21, 1940. Almost a year later, on December 2, 1941, he wrote to his wife Maria, “It will soon be the third Christmas. Hopefully the last.”Collection
Nazi Scourge II: Five Frame ExhibitCategory
Cover, Letter
Philatelic Material