Lot 353
Postcard Sent from the Warsaw Ghetto to Mrs. Alfred Szwarcbaum in Switzerland – Stamp of the Judenrat in Warsaw – 1941
A postcard with a handwritten letter. Sent from the Warsaw ghetto to Mrs. Alfred Szwarcbaum in Luzern (Switzerland) on 30.9.1941. Polish.
A postcard which was sent from Warsaw Ghetto to Luzern (Switzerland). Ink-stamped with the Warsaw Judenrat ink stamp ("Judenrat Warschau"), with two red German ink stamps (censorship stamp with the Nazi Germany emblem – the Reich's Eagle on a Swastika), and with some additional ink stamps.
The letter includes an address by a widow (neighbor of the letter's writer) who requests to contact some of her relatives on her behalf and ask them to send her parcels.
The postcard is addressed to the wife of Alfred Szwarcbaum, a businessman from Będzin who moved with his family to Switzerland when World War II broke out and used to send food packages and money to Jews under German occupation.
14.5X10.5 cm. Good condition. Slight damage.
