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Postcard

itemJune 3, 1944

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Postcard
Montreal Holocaust Museum · small copy hosted here: www.cjhn.ca blocks its images on other sites · full-size image ↗ · view and cite at source ↗

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Montreal Holocaust Museum via Canadian Jewish Heritage Network (incl. Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives)
Dates
June 3, 1944 (indexed as 1944)
Level
item
Extent
Postcard : cardboard : Ink : beige, blue, black ; Ht: 4,25 in. x W: 5,75 in.
Scope & content
Plain postcard sent by Sandor Zafir to his brother upon his arrival in Auschwitz. There is no stamp. A rubber stamp restricts answers to postcards of 30 words or less, in German, and adds that it was delivered by the Association of Hungarian Jews in Budapest. Narrative: Sandor Zafir was deported from the ghetto of Satu Mare to Auschwitz; he arrived on 1944-06-03. The postcard was written by a clerk in German on the day Sandor Zafir arrived at the camp; Mr. Zafir was asked to address and sign it. Sandor's brother, the recipient ofthis postcard, was in a Hungarian labour camp at the time the postcard was sent. The text is designed to reassure the family that all is well. The differences in handwriting are clearly visible; furthermore, the Zafir family did not speak German at home and so Sandor would not have written to his brother in German.
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textual record
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DocumentHandwrittenLetterPostcardSignatureTagged automatically by a vision model; may contain mistakes.
Text in the image
1944 VI 3Liebe Brüder,Lieber Bruder,Read automatically; may contain mistakes.
Language
German
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