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https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45475
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Postcard : cardboard : Ink : beige, blue, black ; Ht: 4,25 in. x W: 5,75 in.
- Date
- June 3, 1944
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Postcard : cardboard : Ink : beige, blue, black ; Ht: 4,25 in. x W: 5,75 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- June 3, 1944
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- German
- Notes
- Plain postcard sent by Sandor Zafir to his brother upon his arrival in Auschwitz. There is no stamp. A rubber stamp restricts answers to postcards of 30 words or less, in German, and adds that it was delivered by the Association of Hungarian Jews in Budapest. Narrative: Sandor Zafir was deported from the ghetto of Satu Mare to Auschwitz; he arrived on 1944-06-03. The postcard was written by a clerk in German on the day Sandor Zafir arrived at the camp; Mr. Zafir was asked to address and sign it. Sandor's brother, the recipient ofthis postcard, was in a Hungarian labour camp at the time the postcard was sent. The text is designed to reassure the family that all is well. The differences in handwriting are clearly visible; furthermore, the Zafir family did not speak German at home and so Sandor would not have written to his brother in German.
- Accession No.
- 2002.06.11
- Name Access
- Zafir, Alexander (Sandor)
- Places
- Auschwitz, Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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