Anna Csillag Fränkel postcard collection

Identifier

irn46948

Language of Description

English

Alt. Identifiers

2012.323.1

Dates

1 Jan 1941 - 31 Dec 1970

Level of Description

Item

Languages

German
Polish
Hungarian

Source

EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn46948

Extent and Medium

folder

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Anna Csillag Fränkel

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2012 by Anna Csillag Fränkel.

Scope and Content

Postcards (9), sent from and sent to a variety of individuals in different concentration camps, internment camps, labor camps, or ghettos. Includes postcards from Izbica, Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Ilag VII internment camp in Laufen (Upper Bavaria), Ravensbrück, and the Łódź ghetto. Also includes one postcard sent to a German army officer at the front, with an ink stamp at the bottom reading "Die Juden sind unser Unglück!" and a blank postcard of the type used at Auschwitz, with a Polish postage stamp from 1970 commemorating Auschwitz and an ink stamp relating to an exhibition there in that same year.

Subjects

Labor camps--Hungary.
Ilag VII (Concentration camp)
Concentration camp inmates.
Litzmannstadt-Getto (Łódź, Poland)
Izbica Lubelska (Poland)
Ravensbrück (Concentration camp)
Opole (Poland)
Jewish ghettos--Poland.

Genre

Document

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