GERMANY Poland 1942 AUSCHWITZ Concentration/Ext Camp KZ Lager Cover to , Judaica

Description: GERMANY Poland 1942 AUSCHWITZ Concentration/Ext Camp KZ Lager Cover to , Judaica Click images to enlarge Description Very interesting KZ-Stationery Cover (Letter Sheet) from a prisoner held in the Concentration Auschwitz in Poland. KZ-Cover written on 25. October 1942 in Camp by Johann Zachareck and sent to his wife Martha Zackareck in Kulmsee = Chełmża / occupied Poland ! The Stamp was partly remove by the Nazzi Censor to check on hidden and forbidden information ! A item for the serious collector of Judaica and Holocaust related philately ! In Fine condition with the usual slight wears and rips ! NOTE: We have many more nice Camp Mail items in our Store ! For condition check and enlarge all photos ! Shipping charges based on fully insured by trackable registered priority airmail ! The Auschwitz concentration camp (German: Konzentrationslager Auschwitz) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II and the Holocaust. It consisted of Auschwitz I, the main camp (Stammlager) in Oświęcim; Auschwitz II-Birkenau, a concentration and extermination camp with gas chambers; Auschwitz III-Monowitz, a labor camp for the chemical conglomerate IG Farben; and dozens of subcamps. The camps became a major site of the Nazis' Final Solution to the Jewish Question. After Germany sparked World War II by invading Poland in September 1939, the Schutzstaffel (SS) converted Auschwitz I, an army barracks, into a prisoner-of-war camp for Polish political prisoners. The first inmates, German criminals brought to the camp in May 1940 as functionaries, established the camp's reputation for sadism. Prisoners were beaten, tortured, and executed for the most trivial reasons. The first gassings—of Soviet and Polish prisoners—took place in block 11 of Auschwitz I around August 1941. Construction of Auschwitz II began the following month, and from 1942 until late 1944 freight trains delivered Jews from all over German-occupied Europe to its gas chambers. Of the 1.3 million people sent to Auschwitz, 1.1 million died. The death toll includes 960,000 Jews (865,000 of whom were gassed on arrival), 74,000 ethnic Poles, 21,000 Roma, 15,000 Soviet prisoners of war, and up to 15,000 other Europeans. Those not gassed died of starvation, exhaustion, disease, individual executions, or beatings. Others were killed during medical experiments. At least 802 prisoners tried to escape, 144 successfully, and on 7 October 1944 two Sonderkommando units, consisting of prisoners who staffed the gas chambers, launched an unsuccessful uprising. Only 789 staff (no more than 15 percent) ever stood trial; several were executed, including camp commandant Rudolf Höss. The Allies' failure to act on early reports of atrocities by bombing the camp or its railways remains controversial. As the Soviet Red Army approached Auschwitz in January 1945, toward the end of the war, the SS sent most of the camp's population west on a death march to camps inside Germany and Austria. Soviet troops entered the camp on 27 January 1945, a day commemorated since 2005 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. In the decades after the war, survivors such as Primo Levi, Viktor Frankl, and Elie Wiesel wrote memoirs of their experiences, and the camp became a dominant symbol of the Holocaust. In 1947, Poland founded the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum on the site of Auschwitz I and II, and in 1979 it was named a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Payment Payments must be made not later than 7 days after auction end, unless other arrangements have been made. Please contact us with any questions. Import duties, taxes, and charges are not included in the item price or shipping cost. These charges are on the buyer's responsibility Shipping Shipping to countries with more losses registering is obligatory (please ask) ! We ship by registered mail only for totals above $30 with insurance and tracking code ! Unregistered shipping are on buyers responsibility only ! Presentation material like albums, pages or presentation cards are not part of the auction. We combine items. Please wait before paying until you got our combined invoice. Combined Shipping Rates Registered Shipping Worldwide Priority Airmail Fully Insured Non-Registered Worldwide Priority Airmail Not Insured up to 50 grams / up to 1.75oz $5.20 $2.50 up to 500 gram / up to 17.5oz $7.20 $4.50 Pictures sell! Auctiva offers Free Image Hosting and Editing.300+ Listing Templates! Auctiva gets you noticed! The complete eBay Selling Solution.

Price: 399.95 USD

Location: Bochum

End Time: 2024-12-30T18:00:36.000Z

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