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Announcement of the funeral of a Gross-Rosen concentration camp prisoner, Jerome-Gaston Vierstraete. French-language printed correspondence identifies the deceased as ''...Political Prisoner...arrested April 11, 1942 by the Gestapo...martyr for freedom...January 4, 1945, to the extermination camp of Gross-Rosen...'' Religious services are to be, ''...held in the parish church of St. Martin Ypres, Tuesday, Sept. 18, 1945, at 10 a.m...Pray For Him...!'' Program lists the bereaved and the various positions Vierstraete held in local organizations. Measures 8'' x 9.75''. With a 7.75'' piece of paper labeled ''Belguim Death / Notice / Gross-Rosen / 1945''. Creasing and light abrasions to edges of delicate mourning paper, else near fine.
Memorial Service Program For Jerome-Gaston Vierstraete, a WWII Political Prisoner Who Died in The Gross-Rosen Concentration Camp
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