F03_P11: Warsaw Jewish Ghetto
1941 January 28, Front side - Post card from Warsaw ghetto resident to New York, United States.
Tan post card with printed text and outline in German using purple ink. Cursive handwriting in English using black ink is present. At the top right, a purple 30-groszy imprinted stamp depicting the Briggita Church, in Lublin, Poland. To the left, a black ink overprint cancellation dated January 28, 1941. At the bottom edge, red cancellations with the Reichsalder symbol are present.
Name/Title
F03_P11: Warsaw Jewish GhettoEntry/Object ID
2008.4.52Scope and Content
1941 January 28, post card from Warsaw ghetto resident to New York, United States.Context
The Jewish ghetto in Warsaw, the largest in occupied Europe, home to the largest Jewish community, was surrounded by an 18-kilometer wall and sealed to the outside world during November 1940. At its peak, half a million Jews lived in the Warsaw ghetto. Deportations to the Treblinka extermination camp began on July 23, 1942, and continued until September 21; 254,000 Warsaw Jews were gassed to death in that operation. When Nazi forces arrived to liquidate the ghetto on April 19, 1943, the Jewish Combat Organization arose in revolt. The outnumbered and outgunned ghetto fighters carried on their insurrection for three weeks, but were finally defeated on May 10, 1943. A January 28, 1941, postal card from a Warsaw ghetto resident to New York. It was first censored by the Jewish Council, which applied the small red boxed “Judenrat Warschau” mark at the upper left, and then by the Nazis, who applied the red machine censor mark at Berlin.Collection
Nazi Scourge II: Five Frame ExhibitCategory
Post Card
Philatelic Material