Object numberM2012/010:137A
DescriptionThis is an important document from the Theresienstadt Post Office, which declares that until April 1943, it was forbidden for inmates to receive any parcels. The announcement also describes who is to collect all post deliveriesl - the authorized Jew, Moritz Kohn; it also states where the mail is collected - at the Bauschowitz Post Office, on the handiing over of delivery slips & then signed by the Jew, Moritz Kohn.
In the announcement, the process of mail transportation is described: all the mail will be transported by trucks into the ghetto, then the mail is censored & then is delivered by the Terezin Ghetto Administration.
The Jewish Self Administration Department of Post and Transport is to advise about these deliveries by special "Avises" to the Jewish inmates. This procedure is supervised by the SS Camp Commander of Terezin.
The announcement is dated 28 June 1943.
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In the announcement, the process of mail transportation is described: all the mail will be transported by trucks into the ghetto, then the mail is censored & then is delivered by the Terezin Ghetto Administration.
The Jewish Self Administration Department of Post and Transport is to advise about these deliveries by special "Avises" to the Jewish inmates. This procedure is supervised by the SS Camp Commander of Terezin.
The announcement is dated 28 June 1943.
Refer to notes for more information
Object namepostal services
Materialpaper
Dimensions
- width: 175.00 mm
height: 206.00 mm
Language
- German The Post Office announces the following:
Until April 1943, it was forbidden to receive any parcels. Therefore Parcels were returned, but later handled by Post Office Prague 16 and Prague 7.
There is a possibility that a parcel was somehow delivered as a "little Parcel" which often happened because the parcel weighed 1 kilo, and during transport, the delivery number fell off.
All post deliveries will be received by the authorised Jew, Moritz Kohn on behalf of the Ghetto mail at the Bauschowitz Post Office on the handing over of delivery slips or bulk slips and signed by the Jew, Moritz Kohn.
All the mail will then be transported by trucks into the ghetto where, after censorship, the mail will be left to the Ghetto Administration for further delivery.
The Jewish Self Administration Department of Post and Transport is to advise of the deliveries by special "avisos" to the Jewish inmates of the Jewish settlement.
This procedure is supervised by the SS Lagerkommander Theresienstadt.
Complaints between the Department Head and Ghetto Post will be regulated by the agency of the Jew, Moritz Kohn. In this case, even if the delivery was handed in as a "little parcel", a receipt by the receiver can't be obtained as the addressee is no longer in the Jewish settlement, Theresienstadt, by was already sent to another camp, possibly to Riga or Litzmannstadt.
The Post Office cannot do any more in this case.
28.6.1943 Head of Department
Credit lineSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Eva Gertler