F06_P04: Secret Police in Poland Repression and Resistance
1943 September 2, Front side - Post card from prisoner at Litzmannstadt (Łódź) Ghetto.
Tan post card with printed German in purple ink as the outline. Cursive handwriting in pencil is present at the top left and center right. A black ink overprint stamp from Litzmannstadt appears at the top center. There is an imprinted purple 6-pfennig stamp depicting Adolf Hitler with a cancellation overtop; however, the date is illegible. At the center is a red ink marking.
Name/Title
F06_P04: Secret Police in Poland Repression and ResistanceEntry/Object ID
2007.6.4Scope and Content
1943 September 2, post card from prisoner at Litzmannstadt (Łódź) Ghetto.Context
Opposition to the Nazis was much stronger and more persistent in Poland than in Germany, so the Gestapo had its hands full in trying to subdue the insurgents. A September 2, 1943, postal card from an inmate at the Litzmannstadt (Łódź) Gestapo prison at Robert-Koch-Strasse 16, with a red manuscript censor scrawl. Note that the prisoner wrote the town name as "L-stadt," which was probably a dual protest that went unnoticed by the Nazis. First, he could have meant it to mean Łódź, the Polish name; second, he avoided writing the name of General Karl Litzmann, the Nazi conqueror for whom the town had been renamed.Collection
Nazi Scourge I: Primary ExhibitionCategory
Post Card
Philatelic Material