F04_P10: Flight of Austrian Jews
1939 March 28, Front side - Envelope for assistance from Chicago relative. 2007.4.10.a
White envelope (brightness of scan blows out proper appearance of the archive) with typed recipient's address in English using black ink. The recipient is Hary T. Rosenfeld of Chicago, Illinois. There is a 25-pfennig blue stamp of President Paul von Hindenburg facing to the left. At the center top, a cancellation dated March 28, 1939 is present. The foundation is promptly working to update this scan.
Name/Title
F04_P10: Flight of Austrian JewsEntry/Object ID
2007.4.10.a-bScope and Content
1938 March 28, envelope and letter for assistance from Chicago relative.Context
Austria under Nazi rule was a nightmare for Jews. A previously unknown SS officer, Adolf Eichmann, was put in charge of the Central Bureau for Emigration in Vienna shortly after the Anschluss. Using violence, terror, deceit, blackmail, and the threat of concentration camp confinement, Eichmann’s task was to expel all Jews from Austria while confiscating all their money and property. No country in the world wanted to shelter the Jews, so each one had the problem of securing the required emigration documents. After the November 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom, Eichmann imprisoned the remaining Jews in concentration camps to increase pressure on them to leave. By the time war broke out in the fall of 1939, 126,445 Austrian Jews had emigrated. In a March 28, 1939, surface letter to the United States, Robert Rosenfeld sent a desperate appeal for assistance to his Chicago relative.Collection
Nazi Scourge I: Primary ExhibitionCategory
Cover, Note
Philatelic Material