Overview
- Description
- Contains a postcard sent from Vienna in 1938 with image of poster “Der Ewige Jude”; a postcard with caricature of Kurt Schuschnigg, Jews, clergy running away from new regime; a postcard with the stamp depicting Winston Churchill and captioned ”Not worth a penny”; a letter written by a Jewish prisoner in Sachsenhausen to his family, dated November 3, 1940; a letter written by a prisoner in Dachau concentration camp to his family in Oppeln; and a letter written by German authorities in Brno to Jan Lustig warning him that his account will be confiscated if he doesn’t present himself, on the other side the pencil notation reads (in translation) "all the Jews left in the unknown direction," dated February 18, 1944.
- Date
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1938-1944
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Niels Bach
Physical Details
- Language
- German
- Genre/Form
- Letters. Postcards.
- Extent
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1 folder
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- The donor, source institution, or a third party has asserted copyright over some or all of these material(s). The Museum does not own the copyright for the material and does not have authority to authorize use. For permission, please contact the rights holder(s).
- Copyright Holder
- Mr. Niels Bach
Keywords & Subjects
- Corporate Name
- Dachau (Concentration camp) Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2008 by Niels Bach.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-06-02 08:46:24
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn35637
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