F02_P14: Jewish Ghetto Theresienstadt
1944 March 7, Front side - Receipt for parcel sent to Theresienstadt Jewish ghetto by a Portugese Jewish aid committee.
Red receipt with printed text and oultine in French and Portugese using black ink. Overprint stamps are present overall. In the top right, a 2-escudo depicting a sailing ship. Overtop, a cancellation though illegible. At the center, a cancellation dated March 24, 1944 appears.
Name/Title
F02_P14: Jewish Ghetto TheresienstadtEntry/Object ID
2008.4.32Scope and Content
1944 March 7, receipt for parcel sent to Theresienstadt Jewish ghetto by a Portugese Jewish aid committee.Context
Nazi officials selected the Bohemian town of Terezin, located about 50 kilometers from Prague, as the location for a Jewish ghetto and transit center. On November 24, 1941, Terezin became the Theresienstadt ghetto, to which the Nazis expelled 140,000 Jews, the majority of whom eventually perished in death camps. Cultural life flourished in the ghetto even as residents were being dispatched to the gas chambers of Auschwitz, and living conditions were more humane there than at any of the other Jewish ghettos established by the Nazis. Theresienstadt was the only ghetto that permitted foreign visitors, albeit under carefully managed conditions. An international return receipt for a parcel sent to Theresienstadt by a Portuguese Jewish aid committee on February 29, 1944. A boxed receiving mark of the Jewish self-government postal facility is on the back, and the Jewish Elders’ Council of Theresienstadt handstamp on the front. It was canceled at Bauschowitz, nearest post office to the Ghetto, on March 7 for the return dispatch, and postmarked March 24 upon arrival at Lisbon.Collection
Nazi Scourge II: Five Frame ExhibitCategory
Receipt
Philatelic Material