1941 Warsaw Poland Postcard Cover to Braunschweig Germany Concentration Camp KZ

Item Specifics

Country

Poland

Condition

Cover (Postal History)

Stamp Format

Single

Item Description

Grade: Ungraded
Up for auction is a beautiful postal stationery postcard cover from Warsaw, occupied Poland, General Government to the concentration camp in Braunschweig, a sub camp of the Neuengamme concentration camp. Priced to sell. Postmarked August 18, 1941. In excellent condition. Addressed to Johann Erasmus Fouberg. Note the Watenstedt facility was still another sub camp. Extremely rare postal history to a small sub camp of a sub camp.For the serious collector of Judaica and Holocaust related philately this is an exceptional item. Shipping will be a flat $5.00 within the continental U.S. for USPS mail with insurance. Overseas airmail shipping is $14.00, including registered mail. Questions? Please contact me at: azteccollectables at hotmail.com. Check out my other online auctions of rare and vintage stamps. Please make pay arrangements within 72 hours of winning the auction. I will combine shipping on multiple wins, if you want combined shipping wait until I invoice you. More on this sub camp: Braunschweig-Vechelde 2,000 concentration camp prisoners who had been selected for work in Auschwitz were taken to Braunschweig on three transports between September and November 1944. They were forced to manufacture utility vehicles for Büssing-NAG in satellite camps of Neuengamme concentration camp. 200 men, mostly Polish Jews who had survived the Lodz ghetto, were taken to a former jute spinning mill located in a meadow between Spiegelbergallee und Spinnerstraße, around ten kilometres from Vechelde. Production was being moved because of Allied attacks, and the outlying location of this building complex was probably a key factor in choosing this site for the satellite camp. The former jute spinning mill in Vechelde was turned into a production facility for replacement vehicle parts. The prisoners were probably housed in two halls in the immediate vicinity. The concentration camp prisoners were poorly housed and fed in every respect. The food situation only improved somewhat when the malnourishment of the slave labourers began to have a negative effect on production. The SS cleared the Vechelde satellite camp in late March or early April 1945. The prisoners were initially taken back to the satellite camp on Schillstraße in Braunschweig before being brought to the Salzgitter-Watenstedt/Leinde satellite camp near the Braunschweig steelworks, and then to Ravensbrück concentration camp via Berlin. The SS transported the prisoners from Ravensbrück to the Wöbbelin "reception camp" near Ludwigslust, where the survivors were liberated by American troops on 2 May 1945. The commander of the satellite camp was H. Heinrich Sebrandke. Period September 1944 to late March 1945 Number of prisoners 200 men Kind of work Production of replacement vehicle parts Slave labour on behalf of Büssing-NAG

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