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Negev Holyland

lot # 171 - world war two Concentration Camps, DP Camps, Ghettos and the like

Tuesday Sep 15, 2020 15:00 America/New_York

LITZMANNSTADT GHETTO – ARBEITSEATZ Postcard from R.A.L. Lager (labor Camp) Lagowoer-see, postmarked Grunov,,-Stemberg, 20.10.41 and addressed to Ai15eitsein§alz (der Juden), Litzmannstadt­Ghetto. Boxed violet receiving cancel "Arbeitseinsatz" (work command}, red handstamped "Frei von Zuschlaggebuehr' (no additional postage required), as well as several handwritten notations. Message written in broken German by Jakob Grynsehpan, a forced Iaborer working in underground construction, pleads to the Ghetto authorities that his wife confined there get work in order to earn money, as she cannot get along at 6 RM a week allowance. Very fine "Postal History of the Holocaust" item. Two filing holes that do not detract. Mail items going into Ghetto (or KZ) are rare and desirable objects.

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