F02_P07: Concentration Camp Buchenwald
1938 May 20, Front side - Envelope sent from Hermann Jahn to his wife Hedwig from Buchenwald concentration camp.
Tan envelope with printed text and outline in German using black ink. Cursive handwriting in German using pencil present overall. At the top right is a 12-pfennig red stamp of President Paul von Hindenburg facing to the left. Overtop is a cancellation dated May 20, 1938.
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F02_P07: Concentration Camp BuchenwaldEntry/Object ID
2007.2.7Scope and Content
1938 May 20, envelope sent from Hermann Jahn to his wife Hedwig from 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.Collection
Nazi Scourge I: Primary ExhibitionCategory
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Philatelic Material