F09_P07: Undercover Address Helena Lübke, Lausanne, Kraków
1941 July 29, Front side - Post card from Kraków, Poland to another undercover address of Helena Lübke.
Tan post card with printed text and outline in German using purple ink. Cursive handwriting in red ink is present overall. At the top right corner is an imprinted purple 30-złoty stamp depicting Brigittenkirche (St. Bridget's Church) in Lublin, Poland. Overtop is a cancellation dated July 29, 1941. At the center left is a green overprint stamp.
Name/Title
F09_P07: Undercover Address Helena Lübke, Lausanne, KrakówEntry/Object ID
2007.9.7.aScope and Content
1941 July 29, post card from Kraków, Poland to another undercover address of Helena Lübke.Context
Helena Lübke had been secretary to Ignacy Paderewski, the Polish statesman and world renowned musician who died in exile during World War II. Using her personal funds, she established a service using several undercover addresses in Lausanne, Switzerland, to link people in Nazi-occupied Poland, including prisoners of war and internees, with Poles who had escaped to Allied countries. A May 25, 1943, postage free field post cover from one Helena Lübke undercover address at Lausanne to an interned Polish officer in a Swiss military internment camp at Fribourg, sealed with a trilingual tape of the Internment Service Censorship examiner. A July 29, 1941, censored postal card from Kraków, Poland, to another undercover address of Helena Lübke in Lausanne. The handstamped endorsement "Eingeliefert am Schalter" (dispatched from a counter) meant that the sender had obeyed postal regulations for foreign mail. The boxed "V" propaganda slogan meant "Germany victorious on all fronts!"Collection
Nazi Scourge I: Primary ExhibitionCategory
Post Card
Philatelic Material