Object numberM2012/005:007
DescriptionPostcard from Leo Rosenbaum in Dachau to his wife Gertrud in Vienna, dated 18 December 1938. In this postcard Leo discusses plans to emigrate and hopes the immigration efforts will finally be successful. He asks her to please speed the plans up. In case she will get the permit to emigrate before his passport will arrive, she should go to the Gestapo and petition for his release. He estimates they will have to pay 65 RM tax. He writes that he is doing well, but reminding her not to waste any time.
Leo perished in Dachau less than a month later on 2 January 1939. The postcard is written on the "official" postcards for Dachau concentration camp prisoners, which stipulates that every prisoner of protective custody is allowed to receive and send two letters or two postcards per month from and to his family. That the letters to the prisoners have to be easily legible and ink-written and consist of a maximum of 15 lines. Allowed are only sheets of paper of regular size. Envelopes have to be "ungefuttert" [unpadded]. It is allowed to attach 5 stamps valued 12 Pfennig to each letter. Everything else is forbidden and will be confiscated. Postcards have to have a maximum of 10 lines. It is forbidden to use photographs as a postcard, etc.
This item is part of a collection of letters, documents and photographs belonging to Gertrud Rosenbaum, a Viennese Jew who escaped to England in July 1939. After the war she immigrated to Australia. Included in the collection are letters from her husband, Leo Rosenbaum, who perished on 2 January 1939, age 46, in Dachau concentration camp; Red Cross messages of 25 words only to and from Gertrud in Cambridge to her mother Ida Deutsch, her sister Valerie (Vally) Darebnik, Rudi (her brother), and Quicki (unknown) in Vienna, spanning the years 1939 to 1943; and Red Cross communications between Leo Rosenbaum and his father Adolph in Vienna during Leo’s military service in WWI, including a photo of him in Egypt in front of a pyramid.
Leo perished in Dachau less than a month later on 2 January 1939. The postcard is written on the "official" postcards for Dachau concentration camp prisoners, which stipulates that every prisoner of protective custody is allowed to receive and send two letters or two postcards per month from and to his family. That the letters to the prisoners have to be easily legible and ink-written and consist of a maximum of 15 lines. Allowed are only sheets of paper of regular size. Envelopes have to be "ungefuttert" [unpadded]. It is allowed to attach 5 stamps valued 12 Pfennig to each letter. Everything else is forbidden and will be confiscated. Postcards have to have a maximum of 10 lines. It is forbidden to use photographs as a postcard, etc.
This item is part of a collection of letters, documents and photographs belonging to Gertrud Rosenbaum, a Viennese Jew who escaped to England in July 1939. After the war she immigrated to Australia. Included in the collection are letters from her husband, Leo Rosenbaum, who perished on 2 January 1939, age 46, in Dachau concentration camp; Red Cross messages of 25 words only to and from Gertrud in Cambridge to her mother Ida Deutsch, her sister Valerie (Vally) Darebnik, Rudi (her brother), and Quicki (unknown) in Vienna, spanning the years 1939 to 1943; and Red Cross communications between Leo Rosenbaum and his father Adolph in Vienna during Leo’s military service in WWI, including a photo of him in Egypt in front of a pyramid.
Production placeDachau concentration camp
Production date 1938-12-18
Object namepostcards
Materialpaper
Dimensions
- length: 105.00 mm
width: 150.00 mm
Language
- German
Credit lineSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Patricia Bull