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Actions Displays	Remove from selection Add to selection Object numberM2012/010:091 DescriptionRich archive of personal correspondence is a significant part of the Eva Gertler’s Collection of Moric Kohn’s Theresienstadt documents in SJM. Some 50 postcards are moving witnesses to the joy of receiving news from those still outside the ghetto, as well as the anguish and pain of close family members and friends when no news was forthcoming and a worrying silence took place. Bearing many postal censorship and rubber stamps the mail also documents the story of regimented and often restricted postal system operated under the Nazi occupation in Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and Tiso’s Slovakia. Further, from numerous date stamps we can also establish that it often took several months for mail to reach its destination in Theresienstadt. Not only we have a date of writing the letter, there usually is a date of posting, together with a large, undated, red circle stamp of Nazi eagle and swastika confirming that letter was checked by the ‘Oberkommando der Wehrmacht’ (High Command of the Armed Forces). Handwritten postcard from Sigmund (Sigo) Klinger, Bratislava to Moric Kohn, Theresienstadt, L407 dated 25/4/1943 & received 27/5/43. Sigo writes in reply to Moric's previous letter, letting him know that they are well, that he has passed on Moric's letter to Planer & Hacker. Sigo requests the address of his sister in law & also laments that he has no news of his parents. Also he is trying to send post parcels to Moric. Production date 1943-04-25 1943 SubjectTerezin, Czech Republic, Theresienstadt ghetto, signs of life Object namepostcards Materialpaper Techniquehandwritten Dimensions width: 140.00 mm height: 102.00 mm Language Credit lineSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Eva Gertler

Object numberM2012/010:091

DescriptionRich archive of personal correspondence is a significant part of the Eva Gertler’s Collection of Moric Kohn’s Theresienstadt documents in SJM. Some 50 postcards are moving witnesses to the joy of receiving news from those still outside the ghetto, as well as the anguish and pain of close family members and friends when no news was forthcoming and a worrying silence took place. Bearing many postal censorship and rubber stamps the mail also documents the story of regimented and often restricted postal system operated under the Nazi occupation in Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and Tiso’s Slovakia. Further, from numerous date stamps we can also establish that it often took several months for mail to reach its destination in Theresienstadt. Not only we have a date of writing the letter, there usually is a date of posting, together with a large, undated, red circle stamp of Nazi eagle and swastika confirming that letter was checked by the ‘Oberkommando der Wehrmacht’ (High Command of the Armed Forces).

Handwritten postcard from Sigmund (Sigo) Klinger, Bratislava to Moric Kohn, Theresienstadt, L407 dated 25/4/1943 & received 27/5/43. Sigo writes in reply to Moric's previous letter, letting him know that they are well, that he has passed on Moric's letter to Planer & Hacker. Sigo requests the address of his sister in law & also laments that he has no news of his parents. Also he is trying to send post parcels to Moric.

Production date 1943-04-25 1943

SubjectTerezin, Czech Republic, Theresienstadt ghetto, signs of life

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Techniquehandwritten

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Credit lineSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Eva Gertler

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