Treblinka: PS card from USA, 1c Jefferson upr 2* 1c, LOS ANGELES 18 OCT 1941, sent to Prague, Protectorat B+M. Recipient Rudolf Kohn (Transport AAr, No. 223 (16. 07. 1942, Praha -> Theresienstadt), then Transport Bx, No. 1745 (22. 10. 1942 -> Treblinka), here murdered
Bychawa Ghetto (Generalgouvernement): Reply half of PS card 3c McKinley (USA) posted at BYCHAWA on 20.6.1941, transit Warschau 27.6, sent to USA, long text in German. The Jewish ghetto was established in December 1940 as a gathering place for local and displaced Jews. In 1942, approximately 2,600 people lived there. In the summer of 1942, the ghetto was liquidated and the inhabitants were deported to the Sobibór extermination camp and the Bełżyce ghetto. Sender Lajbul Rojt (= Roth), recipient known Eva Roth, NY (escape from Poland at the beginning of WW2). Rare item More pictures: a
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Theresienstadt: Postkarte aus Schweden, STOCKHOLM 22.1.1945, an Ältestenrad der Juden adressiert, für Frau Irma Hendl (from Vienna to Theresienstadt on 22.7.1942 by transport IV/5, then transport Dz on 15.5.1944 to Auschwitz-Birkenau and she was murdered there. The text contains a message about the package, a backdated confirmation from 11.11.1945, when she was already dead. Sender known Paula Auguste Löwenthal (deported from Denmark to TerezÃn in October 1943, but was one of the Danish prisoners who managed to survive in the ghetto. As part of preliminary diplomatic negotiations, she was released earlier and evacuated to Sweden, in the second half 1944 More pictures: a