German military postcard

Identifier
irn90260
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2014.442.1
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn90260

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Lou Charloff

Lou Charloff worked as an interpreter for the American military after World War II. He brought a copy of the book, "Das ehrenbuch des Fuhrers" home with him, and after he donated the book to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Library in 2014, the postcard was discovered inside.

Scope and Content

Consists of a Feldpost postcard, postmarked December 7, 1942, written by a member of the German military. The postcard commemorates "Weihnachten in Russland" [Christmas in Russia] and indicates the location where the military unit (as yet unidentified) spent previous Christmases [1939--Hanau; 1940--Caen; 1941--Charkow (Kharkiv); 1942 Woronesh (Voronezh)]. The writing on the postcard is largely illegible.

Corporate Bodies

  • Germany. Wehrmacht

Subjects

  • Voronezh (Russia)

Genre

  • Document
  • Postcards.
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