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Postcard from a Jewish charity in Nazi-occupied Poland requesting aid for 15 families. Postmarked Warsaw, 24 June 1941, card is also stamped with Konigsberg Nazi postal censor and Jewish Council Warsaw marks. Postcard's pictorial side is printed with an urgent request in German for relief and provisions for fifteen local Warsaw families. Help is sought from the Warsaw-expat Jewish community in Shanghai by way of HICEM, an emigration organization that assisted 90,000 Jews in escaping Europe during the Holocaust. Requisition translates to: ''Dear Sirs, From your writing 3.IV.41 Nr. 18378 we gather that you have the ability to send packages with food and provisions. We would like to ask you now kindly to send whenever possible food packages to our employees, as they are living in very materially poor circumstances. We have listed the names and addresses below...We hope that you'll be able to accommodate our plea and are looking forward to your answer as expected by law. [Handwritten signature of a representative]''. Postcard is addressed in type to '''HICEM' / 120 Nanking Road, P.O. Box 1425, Shanghai, China''. Opposite, sender's address is rubber stamped in purple as, ''Judische Soziale Selbstghilfe, Helfskomitee Warschau, Abteilung: Verwandtenhilfe, Warschau, Grzybowski-Platz 10/1'', translating to: ''Jewish Social Self-Help / Help Committee of Warsaw / Department of Help For Relatives''. Body of letter also lists 15 individuals for whom help is needed. Text has a few corrections in ink by an unknown hand. Postcard measures approximately 5'' x 3''. Toning, else near fine.
Holocaust Postcard From a Jewish Charity in Warsaw -- Requesting Immediate Aid For 15 Jewish Families -- Postcard Bears Nazi Stamp
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