F07_P13: Romania: Internment Camp Târgu-Jiu; Gestapo censorship
1942 July 27, Front side - Post card from inmate at Camp Târgu-Jiu forwarded to Bucharest, Romania.
Tan post card with printed text and outline in red ink. At the top right is a red 2-leu imprinted stamp depicting Ion Antonescu, Romanian military leader. To the left is a black and white 2.50+0.50-leu stamp depicting Ion Antonescu facing to the left. Overtop is a cancellation dated July 27, 1942. Below is a red overprint stamp labeled "Cenzurat Târgu-Jiu". An additional stamp to the left in purple ink and circlular. At the center is cursive handwriting in black ink. To the left is cursive handwriting in pencil or purple ink.
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F07_P13: Romania: Internment Camp Târgu-Jiu; Gestapo censorshipEntry/Object ID
2007.7.13Scope and Content
1942 July 27, post card from inmate at Camp Târgu-Jiu forwarded to Bucharest, Romania.Context
Anti-fascist refugees from Germany and German-occupied lands were incarcerated by Romanian authorities, under Nazi sway after 1939. The armed forces of Romania entered the war on Germany's side in the 1941 attack on the U.S.S.R., even though Germany and Italy had forced Romania to cede territory to the Soviet Union and Hungary in 1939 and 1940. A coup d'état in August 1944 overthrew the puppet regime. The Romanian army then switched sides, joining Soviet forces to liberate Transylvania, Hungary, and Slovakia from Nazi rule. A July 27, 1942, censorship military postal card with added postage from an inmate of Camp Târgu-Jiu for political internees, forwarded to Bucharest, Romania. The only recorded example of mail from this camp. Also, a January 2, 1944, periodical wrapper from Bucharest, Romania, to Munich, Germany. Evidently worried that even a stamp collector periodical might include seditious matter, the Gestapo censored it in Vienna. The Gestapo did not censor letter mail, so this censor marking is “hardly ever found” according to Karl Heinz Riemer’s standard reference on German wartime postal censorship.Collection
Nazi Scourge I: Primary ExhibitionCategory
Post Card
Philatelic Material