F01_P12: Concentration Camp Flossenbürg

Archive

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Spungen Family Foundation - Holocaust Postal Collection

1944 September 22, Front side - Waybill from Grafenwöhr to Nazi SS guard at Flossenbürg.: Tan waybill with printed text and outline in German using black ink. Typed text in German using black ink is present overall. At the top right corner, a maroon 15-pfennig stamp depicting Adolf Hitler facing to the right. Overtop, a cancellation dated September 22, 1942. At the top center, an beige adhesive sticker with printed text in German using black ink.
1944 September 22, Front side - Waybill from Grafenwöhr to Nazi SS guard at Flossenbürg.

Tan waybill with printed text and outline in German using black ink. Typed text in German using black ink is present overall. At the top right corner, a maroon 15-pfennig stamp depicting Adolf Hitler facing to the right. Overtop, a cancellation dated September 22, 1942. At the top center, an beige adhesive sticker with printed text in German using black ink.

Name/Title

F01_P12: Concentration Camp Flossenbürg

Entry/Object ID

2008.4.12.a

Scope and Content

1944 September 22, waybill from Grafenwöhr to Nazi SS guard at Flossenbürg.

Context

Flossenbürg, located near the Czech border in Southern Bavaria, opened May 3, 1938. It was liberated by the United States Army on April 23, 1945. A March 2, 1944, censored inmate’s letter from Flossenbürg to Łódź, Poland (renamed Litzmannstadt by the Nazis), on a prisoners’ formular lettersheet, and a September 22, 1944, waybill for a 3-kilogram parcel mailed from Grafenwöhr to a Nazi SS guard at Flossenbürg.

Collection

Nazi Scourge II: Five Frame Exhibit

Category

Waybill
Philatelic Material

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Waybill

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Record, Shipping

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Administrative Records

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Archive Details

Date(s) of Creation

1944 - Sep 1944

Primary Language

German

Ethnography

Cultural Region

Region

Central Europe

Continent

Europe

Dimensions

Dimension Description

Measurement of the full length and width of the archive.

Width

4-1/4 in

Length

4-1/2 in

Dimension Notes

Measured length from top of adhesive sticker to bottom of waybill.

Relationships

Related Places

Place

Nazi Concentration Camp

Flossenbürg Concentration Camp

Region

Central Europe

Continent

Europe

General Notes

Note Type

Cataloging Note

Note

C. Walrich - Updated and PDF (June 24 2026)