Hello,
One of the latest additions to my collection.
It is a postcard written by a Belgian inmate of KL-Buchenwald on Januar 23 1944.
Correspondence from Belgian KL-inmates is very rare, most of them were kept in custody under "Nacht und Nebel"-law.
Once detained under this law, the political prisoners weren't allowed to have contact anymore with the outside world, this ofcourse meant that they weren't allowed to sent or receive mail.
Sometimes the KL system failed and they managed to sent a letters or more often a postcards to their family.
The KL-camp administration ofcourse censored the letters & postcards written by the prisoners and they had to be written in German.
It seems that Roger Lahaye asked a German inmate to write the text on the postcard, the text is in Sutterlin German but the adress is written by Roger Lahaye himself.
The text is the same like you can read on all KL correspondence:
- everything is ok.
- I received your food parcel in good order.
- do my regards to all the family.
Cheers,
Peter
One of the latest additions to my collection.
It is a postcard written by a Belgian inmate of KL-Buchenwald on Januar 23 1944.
Correspondence from Belgian KL-inmates is very rare, most of them were kept in custody under "Nacht und Nebel"-law.
Once detained under this law, the political prisoners weren't allowed to have contact anymore with the outside world, this ofcourse meant that they weren't allowed to sent or receive mail.
Sometimes the KL system failed and they managed to sent a letters or more often a postcards to their family.
The KL-camp administration ofcourse censored the letters & postcards written by the prisoners and they had to be written in German.
It seems that Roger Lahaye asked a German inmate to write the text on the postcard, the text is in Sutterlin German but the adress is written by Roger Lahaye himself.
The text is the same like you can read on all KL correspondence:
- everything is ok.
- I received your food parcel in good order.
- do my regards to all the family.
Cheers,
Peter
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