Overview
- Description
- Consists of a Feldpost postcard, postmarked December 7, 1942, written by a member of the German military. The postcard commemorates "Weihnachten in Russland" [Christmas in Russia] and indicates the location where the military unit (as yet unidentified) spent previous Christmases [1939--Hanau; 1940--Caen; 1941--Charkow (Kharkiv); 1942 Woronesh (Voronezh)]. The writing on the postcard is largely illegible.
- Date
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postmark:
1942 December 07
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Lou Charloff
Physical Details
- Language
- German
- Genre/Form
- 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
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Keywords & Subjects
- Geographic Name
- Voronezh (Russia)
- Corporate Name
- Germany. Wehrmacht
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Lou Charloff worked as an interpreter for the American military after World War II. He brought a copy of the book, "Das ehrenbuch des Fuhrers" home with him, and after he donated the book to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Library in 2014, the postcard was discovered inside.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-08-25 08:31:53
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn90260
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