By: Cherrystone Auctions
lot # 1040 - POLAND Generalgouvernement - WWII German Occupation
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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