Description: Up for auction is a beautiful letter sheet from a woman prisoner in the concentration camp of Ravensbruck in Germany. Konzentrationlager KZ Cover written on camp issued stationery. Sent by a prisoner named Kilnova Franziska to Klima Franz in Prague Czechoslovakia . The handwritten letter is dated July 12, 1943. Priced to sell. Postmarked December 29, 1944. What is interesting about this cover is it has the preprinted stationery issued by concentration camp officials along with the censorship markings. Ravensbrück was a German concentration camp exclusively for women from 1939 to 1945, located in northern Germany, 90 km (56 mi) north of Berlin at a site near the village of Ravensbrück (part of Fürstenberg/Havel). The camp memorial’s estimated figure of 132,000 women who were in the camp during the war includes about 48,500 from Poland, 28,000 from the Soviet Union, almost 24,000 from Germany and Austria, nearly 8,000 from France, and thousands from other countries including a few from the United Kingdom and the United States. More than 20,000 of the total were Jewish.[4] More than 80 percent were political prisoners. Many slave labor prisoners were employed by Siemens & Halske. From 1942 to 1945, medical experiments to test the effectiveness of sulfonamides were undertaken. For the serious collector of Judaica and Holocaust related philately this is an exceptional item.
Price: 349.99 USD
Location: Lake Worth, Florida
End Time: 2025-01-11T23:01:55.000Z
Shipping Cost: 4 USD
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Condition: Used
Grade: Ungraded
Place of Origin: Germany & Colonies
Quality: Used
Era: 3rd Reich
Type: Cover
Topic: Concentration Camp
Certification: Uncertified
