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Prisoners at all Nazi concentration camps in German territory were allowed to send and receive mail on a very limited basis. The mail inmates sent out from the Konzentrationslager was sent on special preprinted stationary and was always censored by the Postzensurstelle to make sure that the prisoner did not complain or provide outsiders with sensitive information about concentration camp industries, security or conditions in general. Examples of all such mail are rare today.
from Flossenburg concentration camp, also for sale onUSMBOOKS.com.
The absolutely genuine Nazi concentration camp correspondence for sale on this USMBOOKS web page was written by a man named Emil with a typical Jewish last name Weiß who was a Schutzhäftling (in protective custody) at Konzentrationslager Auschwitz and at Dora near Nordhausen, a subcamp of Konzentrationslager Weimar Buchenwald. He wrote to his wife Klara Weiß, their children and his parents, who lived in the small town of Gabersdorf in the Sudetengau (Kreis Trautenau). This area had been part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire until 1919, from 1919 until 1938 it was part of Czechoslovakia and from 1938 until 1945 it was part of Reichsgau Sudetenland. The small town of Gabersdorf is very near the Nazi medal and badge producing city of Gablonz.
AUSCHWITZ
MARCH 1943
Prisoner number 104547 Emil Weiß wrote the letter shown left to his wife Klara and their children on Konzentrationslager Auschwitz inmate stationary on 30 March 1943. It has an Auschwitz postmark dated 3 April 1943. The pre-folded Auschwitz stationary measures 8-3/4 x 12 inches (folds to 4-1/4 x 6 inches). The letter was written in pencil and contains greetings, general “I am fine” information, 75 Reichsmarks is mentioned - none of the contents was censored.
AUSCHWITZ
JUNE 1943
Prisoner number 104547 Emil Weiß of Block 5 wrote this letter to his wife Klara, their children and his parents on Konzentrationslager Auschwitz inmate stationary on 30 May 1943. It has an Auschwitz (Oberschlesien) postmark dated 3 June 1943, and the original red Adolf Hitler postage stamp is still attached. The pre-folded Auschwitz stationary measures 8-3/4 x 12 inches (folds to 4-1/4 x 6 inches).
In this letter Weiß mentions the receipt of a family letter dated 25 May, as well as a package which he was very happy to receive. He requests tobacco in a next parcel and sends instructions about labeling and numbering the package. The letter clearly shows frustration about being separated from his family and he hopes God won’t punish the family more than he already has. Contains red censor stamps on the outside and inside of the letter.
In this letter Weiß mentions the receipt of a family letter dated 25 May, as well as a package which he was very happy to receive. He requests tobacco in a next parcel and sends instructions about labeling and numbering the package. The letter clearly shows frustration about being separated from his family and he hopes God won’t punish the family more than he already has. Contains red censor stamps on the outside and inside of the letter.
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AUSCHWITZ
JULY 1943
Prisoner number 104547 Emil Weiß of Block 5, St4 Post II wrote this letter to his wife Klara and their children on Konzentrationslager Auschwitz inmate stationary on 18 July 1943. It has an Auschwitz (Oberschlesien) postmark dated 23 July 1943, and the original red Adolf Hitler postage stamp is still attached. The pre-folded Auschwitz stationary measures 8-3/4 x 12 inches (folds to 4-1/4 x 6 inches).
Apparently a damaged package had arrived as this letter starts out with packing instructions for the next one. Do not pack mustard and cigarettes in the same parcel, Weiß writes! He worries that he has not heard anything from his parents for a while and asks his wife if she has had an argument with them. We writes he wishes he could write letters to more than one address.
This piece of 1943 concentration camp correspondence contains dark blue censor stamps on the outside and inside of the letter.
is **SOLD**.
AUSCHWITZ
AUGUST 1943
Prisoner number 104547 Emil Weiß of Block 5, St4 Post II wrote the letter shown right to his wife Klara, children and his parents on Konzentrationslager Auschwitz inmate stationary on 8 August 1943. It has an Auschwitz (Oberschlesien) postmark dated 14 August 1943, and the original red Adolf Hitler postage stamp is still attached. The pre-folded Auschwitz stationary measures 8-3/4 x 12 inches (folds to 4-1/4 x 6 inches).
Emil Weiß had received two packages, the first one in very good condition but the second one was ruined. A very bad packing job, he writes. He thanks God for his good health, and that he lacks nothing in his daily life but wishes he could be with his family soon. He realizes life at home is not easy without him. He also mentions the receipt of a letter from his father. Contains a blue censor stamp on the outside of the letter, and several sentences in the letter have been obliterated by red censor marks.
KL AUSCHWITZ letter
is **SOLD**.
BUCHENWALD / DORA 1944
Prisoner number 16227 Emil Weiß of Block 17/104 wrote this letter from Dora (also called Dora-Mittelbau and Nordhausen-Dora), the location of a Nazi labor camp that provided workers for the Mittelwerk V-2 rocket factory near Nordhausen, Germany. At the time Weiß wrote this letter, Dora was still an official sub-cap of Buchenwald.
This changed at the end of September 1944 when the SS administration ordered Dora to be politically separated from Buchenwald - it became Konzentrationslager Mittelbau. Until its liberation by US Forces on 10/11 April 1945, 60,000 prisoners of 21 different nationalities worked underground here and approximately 20,000 of them died.
This letter was written by Emil Weiß on 1 June 1944 on Konzentrationslager Weimar-Buchenwald inmate stationary that measures 8-1/4 x 11-3/4 inches (folds to 3 x 5-7/8 inches). The original Konzentrationslager Weimar-Buchenwald envelope is addressed to his wife Klara, and the letter on Konzentrationslager Weimar-Buchenwald inmate stationary is for his wife, kids and his parents.
He is grateful for newsy letters he received recently. He writes that for the first time in 15 months [as a prisoner] a guard or prisoner stole money, important papers and family letters from him. He also mentions he was quite sick but is healthy again, and that he received several packages that contained bread, honey and sugar. He reports about the lovely weather and nice location of the camp he is in. He ends with love and kisses and greetings for his uncle and aunt as well.
There is a censor stamp at the bottom of the letter (right).
He is grateful for newsy letters he received recently. He writes that for the first time in 15 months [as a prisoner] a guard or prisoner stole money, important papers and family letters from him. He also mentions he was quite sick but is healthy again, and that he received several packages that contained bread, honey and sugar. He reports about the lovely weather and nice location of the camp he is in. He ends with love and kisses and greetings for his uncle and aunt as well.
There is a censor stamp at the bottom of the letter (right).
original envelope is **SOLD**.
NAZI CONCENTRATION CAMP INMATE CORRESPONDENCE
ACTUAL PRISONER
CORRESPONDENCE FROM
KONZENTRATIONSLAGER
(CONCENTRATION CAMPS)
AUSCHWITZ & BUCHENWALD
CORRESPONDENCE FROM
KONZENTRATIONSLAGER
(CONCENTRATION CAMPS)
AUSCHWITZ & BUCHENWALD
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