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Verso of a postcard sent by a new arrival to Auschwitz to a relative in Theresienstadt reassuring him that everything was fine.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 57717A
Verso of a postcard sent by a new arrival to Auschwitz to a relative in Theresienstadt reassuring him that everything was fine. Some inmates were forced to write these cards to maintain the deception that deportations to Auschwitz signified nothing dangerous.

Verso of a postcard sent by a new arrival to Auschwitz to a relative in Theresienstadt reassuring him that everything was fine.

Some inmates were forced to write these cards to maintain the deception that deportations to Auschwitz signified nothing dangerous.

Date
1944 April 15
Locale
Auschwitz, [Upper Silesia] Poland
Variant Locale
Brzezinka
Birkenau
Auschwitz III
Monowitz
Auschwitz II
Photo Designation
KILLING CENTERS -- Auschwitz -- WARTIME -- Documents
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Morris Rosen

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Rights and Restrictions

Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Morris Rosen
 
Record last modified: 2002-12-31 00:00:00
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