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Auction 54 · Lot 270
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.
- Estimate
- $200–$300
- Hammer price
- $150
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
author
(HOLOCAUST).
Place
(Germany)
Publication
24th October, 1943
Description
Address panel in English. With postmarks by the Wehrmacht and Palestine Censors Office.
summary
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.