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Postcard sent from Bergen-Belsen by Barend Polak to his family in the Netherlands, 07 May 1944
Postcard sent from Bergen-Belsen by Barend Polak to his family in the Netherlands, 07 May 1944
Polak writes that he is in an old age home (meaning the barracks in which all the elderly inmates of the camp were concentrated); he asks that he be sent parcels rather than letters; and he received a letter from Lex (his son, Alex, who perished afterwards).
The section of the postcard on which the address and details of the addressee has been cut off the postcard;
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item Id
9752303
Type of material
Postcard
File Number
2080
Language
German
Record Group
O.75 - Letters and Postcards Collection
Date of Creation - earliest
07/05/1944
Date of Creation - latest
07/05/1944
Name of Submitter
אלכס פרינס - Alex Prins
Original
YES
No. of pages/frames
3
Connected to Item
O.75: Letters and postcards from the Holocaust period or regarding the Holocaust
Subjects
Dedication
Yad Vashem Document Collection, Moshal Repository