Autograph letter sent from Konzentrationslager Auschwitz. “Schutzhäftling” (protective custody prisoner) Jan Zemanek writes in German (as required) in pencil to his aunt Anna Krajowa in Cracow.

Estimate: $400–$600
Hammer price: $200

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author

(HOLOCAUST).

printer

27th April

Place

Auschwitz

Publication

1944

Description

On single page states how well he is fairing, and that he may write letters and receive packages. With Auschwitz postal cancel and censor stamp: ''Checked / 11 / K.L. Auschwitz''. with printed rules for outgoing mail. Correspondent records his birth-date and Lager location (22nd March 1927; Block 7).

summary

Official camp correspondence from a political prisoner, whose bland content is most chilling given the brutality that was constant in Auschwitz.

Four attached pages, with address panel and return address panel. Separating at folds, taped. 8vo.

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