F03_P08: Jewish Flight from Nazi Germany, New York
1936 August 5, Front side - Post card to Alice Brenner in New York City, New York.
White-yellow post card printed in German using black ink. Overall, typed in English using black ink. At the center left is penciling in English. At the top right is a 50-pfennig blue stamp depicting the L-Z 129 Hindenburg hydrogen airship and below a red 16-pfennig stamp depicting an eagle and swastika. To the left a green 5-pfennig stamp depicting President Paul von Hindenburg. Overtop, a Frankfurt cancellation dated August 5, 1936. At the top center is a pink stamp labled "Deutsche Luftpost".
Name/Title
F03_P08: Jewish Flight from Nazi Germany, New YorkEntry/Object ID
2007.3.8.aScope and Content
1936 August 5, post card from family who fled/hope to flee to New York.Context
Many affluent German Jews emigrated during the early Nazi years. Less fortunate Jews gained an escape route to the east after Germany and the Soviet Union signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop non-aggression treaty in August of 1939. Those who preferred not to become Soviet citizens traveled across Siberia to China. Shanghai, the most cosmopolitan city in the Far East, became a natural haven for German Jews seeking refuge abroad, because no visas were required to enter or to reside there. In August of 1936 the Königsbergers of Frankfurt notified a relative that their belongings were packed and they would set sail soon to New York. Flown by airship Hindenburg. Post card postage 15 pfennigs plus 50 pfennigs air mail surcharge. An October 2, 1939, post card from Wartenburg, East Prussia, German Jewish family to friends and family members who had fled to Shanghai. Königsberg censor’s handstamp used only from September 6 to mid-November 1939, coinciding with the German conquest and subjugation of Poland.Collection
Nazi Scourge I: Primary ExhibitionCategory
Post Card
Philatelic Material