Autograph Postcard in Hebrew by one Shlomo Slodarz interned in a prisoner-of-war camp (Kriegsgefangenlager) in Nazi Germany, written to his son in Palestine.

AUCTION 54 | Wednesday, March 21st, 2012 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts Autograph Letters, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 270
(HOLOCAUST).

Autograph Postcard in Hebrew by one Shlomo Slodarz interned in a prisoner-of-war camp (Kriegsgefangenlager) in Nazi Germany, written to his son in Palestine.

Address panel in English. With postmarks by the Wehrmacht and Palestine Censors Office.

(Germany): 24th October, 1943

Est: $200 - $300
PRICE REALIZED $150
This postcard presents something of an anomaly. At a time when Jews were being killed wholesale in extermination camps, a Hebrew postcard discussing quotidian matters was written by a Jewish father in Germany (who presumably served in the British Army) and freely mailed to his son in Tel-Aviv.