Holocaust Auction June 2023
Lot 542:
Ultra Rare Postcard Sent by Polish Prisoner From Polenlager Slave Labour Camp in Czestochowa in 1943. Written in Polish. Ink stamp that reads "Polenlager". The Polenlager (Polish Camps) was a system of forced labor camps in Silesia that held Poles during the World War II Nazi German occupation of Poland. The prisoners, originally destined for deportation across the border to the new semi-colonial General Government district, were sent to the Polenlager between 1942 and 1945, once the other locations became too overcrowded to accommodate the prisoners.There were over 30 Polenlager camps, mostly in Silesia.**** IMPORTANT **** Shipping from our office in Europe.
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