Message side of a postcard sent by Polish prisoner in Auschwitz, Kasimir Rozycki, to his wife, Stephania, in Warsaw.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 29276A

Overview

Caption: Message side of a postcard sent by Polish prisoner in Auschwitz, Kasimir Rozycki, to his wife, Stephania, in Warsaw.

The printed messages from the camp commandant informs the recipient that each prisoner may receive a 1kg Christmas package containing bread, Christmas baked goods, hard sausage, tobacco products, and toilet articles. The package may not contain currency or coin, preserves in cans, stamps, photographs, letters or cigarette lighters and matches. If a package is not correctly addressed, the contents will confiscated and "used for the benefit of those prisoners who receive no packages from home."
Date: 1940 December 17
Locale: Auschwitz, [Upper Silesia] Poland
Variant Locale: Brzezinka
Birkenau
Auschwitz III
Monowitz
Auschwitz II
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Morris Rosen

Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Morris Rosen