(C) Mourning the Ancient

This page will show concentration camp and prison related material, including letters, envelopes, receipts, currency, etc.

[Below: 'Auschwitz, the meaning of work, the way that I want you to work...' - SLAYER.]

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[Below: Auschwitz Concentration Camp. Front/reverse.]

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[Below: Auschwitz Concentration Camp. You can't see it very well, but the purple ink stamp says 'Geprüft' meaning 'censored'.]

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[Below: Auschwitz Concentration Camp. A better look at the 'Geprüft' meaning 'censored' marking.]

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[Below: Auschwitz Concentration Camp.]

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[Below: Auschwitz envelope with stamp removed by the censor (this was done to make sure there were no secret messages).]

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[Below: Auschwitz money order receipt from January 6/8, 1943. Front/reverse.]

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[Below: Close-up of 'S=Unterscharführer' stamp, the sender of the money order. The 'geldverwalter' means 'money manager'.]

[Below: Birkenau Concentration Camp.]

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[Below: Official Buchenwald envelope.]

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[Below: Obersturmführer Günther Keise at Buchenwald using a partial postage stamp sheet.]

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[Below: Dachau Concentration Camp.]

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[Below: Dachau Concentration Camp.]

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[Below: SS Feldpost from Dachau, June 19, 1942.]

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[Below: Dachau Concentration Camp.]

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[Below: Dachau Concentration Camp.]

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[Below: Money order stub from sending money to Dachau from June 18, 1942. Front/reverse.]

[Below: Groß-Rosen Concentration Camp.]

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[Below: The postage stamp has been partially removed by the censor to check for possible secret messages.]

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[Below: Hamburg=Neuengamme Concentration Camp.]

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[Below: This is a parcel card to an inmate at Hermann Göring Werke, Druette I (subcamp of Neuengamme), September 26, 1944.]

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[Below: Mauthausen-Gusen Concentration Camp.]

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[Below: Mauthausen-Gusen Concentration Camp envelope.]

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[Below: Mauthausen-Gusen Concentration Camp.]

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[Below: Ravensbrück Concentration Camp. Wow, this is some of the neatest handwriting I've ever seen.]

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[Below: Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp.]

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[Below: This says something like: 'Kayser Preuß. forstmeister (Master Forester) Oranienurg Sachsenhausen'. I'm not sure what this is? Is it from the town of Sachsenhausen?]

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[Below: Kraków-Plaszów concentration camp. 'Schutzhapt' means 'protective custody', while 'ZURÜCK Schon Post Erhalten' means 'returned due to letter limit' (prisoners were only allowed a certain number of mail pieces weekly), postmarked December 14, 1944 in Krakau.]

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[Below: Thereienstadt Ghetto. Postcard sent to Vienna from Thereienstadt, August 19, 1944. The purple ink text is says to only reply in the German language (for the censor).]

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[Below: Thereienstadt Ghetto package receipt, postmarked in Vienna, August 30, 1943. Front/reverse.]

[Below: Thereienstadt currency. 1 Krone. Ex-residents of the Thereienstadt Ghetto report using this currency and describe that they received a base of 50 Kronen a month. Front/reverse.]

[Below: Thereienstadt currency. 2 Kronen. Front/reverse.]

[Below: Thereienstadt currency. 5 Kronen. Front/reverse.]

[Below: Thereienstadt currency. 10 Kronen. Front/reverse.]

[Below: Thereienstadt currency. 20 Kronen. Front/reverse.]

[Below: Thereienstadt currency. 50 Kronen. Front/reverse.]

[Below: Thereienstadt currency. 100 Kronen. Front/reverse.]

[Below: Litzmannstadt Ghetto. Postal money order receipt, September 11, 1942.]

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[Below: Litzmannstadt Ghetto. Postal money order receipt, September 11, 1942.]

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[Below: Litzmannstadt Ghetto. Postal money order receipt, September 11, 1942.]

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[Below: Litzmannstadt Ghetto. Postal money order receipt, September 11, 1942.]

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[Below: Reverse. The stamp says 'Der Alteste der Juden' which is The Litzmannstadt Ghetto Council of Elders, who oversaw the ghetto. Like many of the concentration camps the Germans let the Jews and others rule over themselves.]

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[Below: Warsaw Ghetto. This is a parcel card from Sanok (Krakow district), Poland, postmarked July 8, 1941.]

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[Below: This is from the supposed forced labor work camp in Enzesfeld, Austria, near the Enzesfelder-Caro-Metalworks. The address says Triesting on the river (The Triesting is a 60–63 km long river in Lower Austria, originating in the Vienna Woods and flowing into the Schwechat near Achau. It flows through the Triesting Valley (Triestingtal) and is known for hiking, etc. Postmarked on November 15, 1944.]

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[Below: Postcard to Berlin-Tegel Prison from the Berlin Police Chief notifying them that a prisoner, Franz Michelick, has been transported via a prison wagon and telling them that if he doesn't arrive to let them know!]

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[Below: Letter/document from Landsberg Prison, where Adolf Hitler was imprisoned after the Putsch in 1924 (and where he wrote Mein Kampf). This document states Erich Engleman of Landsberg, Wartheland, does not have a criminal record. It bears the handstamp of the Landsberg senior prosecutor, postmarked July 1943.]

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[Below: This is a POW note says 'Kriegsgefangenen=Lagergeld' (Prisoner of war=camp money). As you will see below, these notes begin small and get larger as the denomination increases. 1 Reichspfennig. Front.]

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[Below: This is a POW note says 'Kriegsgefangenen=Lagergeld' (Prisoner of war=camp money). 10 Reichspfennig. Front.]

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[Below: This is a POW note says 'Kriegsgefangenen=Lagergeld' (Prisoner of war=camp money). 50 Reichspfennig. Front.]

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[Below: 1 Reichsmark. Back.]

[Below: This is a POW note says 'Kriegsgefangenen=Lagergeld' (Prisoner of war=camp money). 1 Reichsmark. Front.]

[Below: This is a POW note says 'Kriegsgefangenen=Lagergeld' (Prisoner of war=camp money). 2 Reichsmark. Front.]

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[Below: 5 Reichsmark. Back.]

[Below: This is a POW note says 'Kriegsgefangenen=Lagergeld' (Prisoner of war=camp money). 5 Reichsmark. Front.]

[Below: This is a POW note says 'Kriegsgefangenen=Lagergeld' (Prisoner of war=camp money). 10 Reichsmark. Front.]

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[Below: 'Death camps' were big business (and still are!) after the war. Death camp tourists could go to the many gift shops and get flags, keychains and all sorts of postal material as seen here.]

[Below: Dachau commemorative sheetlet by the Polish Red Cross.]

[Below: Mauthausen commemorative sheet from Austria.]

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[Below: Here is an old Hungarian bank note from 1930 which a scammer has overprinted fraudulent 'Waffen-SS' and 'Ghetto Budapest' nonsense. This is a complete fantasy.]

[Below: This is a fake from some years ago, made from very stiff paper and the same thing on both sides. Authentic notes were produced in 1933-34, but they are very rare.]