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Cherrystone Auctions

lot # 1040 - POLAND Generalgouvernement - WWII German Occupation

Tuesday Oct 12, 2021 10:00 to Wednesday Oct 13, 2021 16:00 America/New_York

1941 (12 July) 12pf stationery card canceled "Warschau C1/bb", sent from an inmate at the infamous Pawiak Prison, addressed locally, rare (during the German occupation, the Pawiak Prison became a German Gestapo prison. Approximately 100,000 people were imprisoned during the prison's operation, some 37,000 died on premises, under torture, or during detention, and 60,000 were transferred to Nazi concentration camps)
Estimate: $150

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