F04_P16: The Holocaust: Transport to Death Camps
1944 March 1, Front side - Post card from Vienna to German Jewish woman at Theresienstadt Jewish ghetto.
Beige post card with printed text and outling in German using black ink. Cursive handwriting in German using black ink is present overall. At the top right corner, a purple 6-pfennig stamp depicting Adolf Hitler is present. Overtop, a cancellation dated March 1, 1944. Two overprint rectangular stamps with text in German appear.
Name/Title
F04_P16: The Holocaust: Transport to Death CampsEntry/Object ID
2008.4.82Scope and Content
1944 March 1, post card from Vienna to German Jewish woman at Theresienstadt Jewish ghetto.Context
The Nazis’ plan to annihilate the Jews of western, central, and southern Europe typically unfolded in stages. First: identification, arrest, expropriation of property, and incarceration in camps. Second: deportation to ghettos in Czechoslovakia, Poland, Ukraine, and the Baltic countries. Third: transport to death camps for extermination. Above: The June 10, 1942, SS-fieldpost post card was mailed from Dolina Camp 1, an assembly center in the Ukraine for Jews who had been selected for extermination. Below: The March 1, 1944, post card from Vienna to a German Jewish woman at Theresienstadt is an example of mail to a ghetto resident that is seldom seen. This exception reflects the period just before a staged and widely publicized visit from the International Committee of the Red Cross, when the Nazis relaxed their cruelty temporarily for propaganda purposes. Over the cancel is a rectangular March 13 arrival datestamp of the Jewish Self-Government Postal Facility. After the Red Cross visit in July, deportations to the Auschwitz and Treblinka death camps resumed, and continued as long as their gas chambers were in operation. Of 140,000 Jews deported to Theresienstadt, only 19,000 were still alive when the ghetto was liberated in May 1945.Collection
Nazi Scourge II: Five Frame ExhibitCategory
Post Card
Philatelic Material