Edith David postcard from the Lublin ghetto

Identifier

irn503451

Language of Description

English

Alt. Identifiers

1991.A.0070
RG-05.005.01

Dates

1 Jan 1942 - 31 Dec 1942

Level of Description

Item

Languages

German

Source

EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn503451

Extent and Medium

folder

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Collection, Gift of Selma Abensohn

Edith David wrote the postcard while at Lublin and mailed it to a "Gentile" friend of the family in Dngenheim, Germany. The postcard was forwarded to Selma D. Abensohn after World War II. Abensohn donated the postcard to United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in July 1991 via Michael Berenbaum.

Scope and Content

Consists of a postcard written by Edith David to a gentile friend in Düggenheim (Eifel region), Germany, from the ghetto at Lublin, Poland. The postcard simply states that Edith and her mother are doing well and have met many acquaintances in Lublin. She expresses her hope to receive word back from the addressee, Frau Wnr. Heinr. Brck Edith David was deported to Lublin at the age of 14 with her mother. She was never heard from again.

People

Brück, Wnr. Heinr.
David, Edith.

Corporate Bodies

Majdanek (Concentration camp)

Subjects

Jewish ghettos--Poland--Lublin.
Jews--Germany.
Krasnystaw (Poland)
Düggenheim (Germany)
Eifel (Germany)

Genre

Postcards.
Document

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