1942 Belgrade Yugoslavia censored cover to Italy Internment Camp Gonars Udine

Item Specifics

Country

Yugoslavia

Condition

Cover (Postal History)

Stamp Format

Single

Item Description

Grade: Ungraded
Up for auction is a beautiful dual censored express postcard cover from Belgrade, Yugoslavia while under German occupation to the Italy internment camp in Gonars, Udine. Nice censorship stamps. Postmarked July 5, 1942. In excellent condition. Priced to sell. Very attractive piece. Addressed to the internment camp commander or officer Colonel Danielo Frampuz. Written in Italian it is not clear who the sender is.Shipping will be a flat $2.00 within the continental U.S. for USPS mail. Overseas airmail shipping is $3.00. Questions? Please contact me at: azteccollectables at hotmail.com. Check out my other online auctions of rare and vintage stamps. My e bay store, Aztec Collectables, has a fine and growing selection of unique covers, stamps and postcards. 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. Gonars was a little known internment camp. From Wikipedia:On February 23, 1942 the Italian fascist regime established a internment camp in Gonars, a town with approx. 4,600 inhabitants near Palmanova in the Province of Udine in northeastern Italy.Most of the prisoners were from present day Slovenia and Croatia. The first transport of 5,343 internees (1,643 of whom were children) arrived two days later from the Province of Ljubljana and from the Rab camp and the camp in Monigo near Treviso.The camp was disbanded on September 8, 1943, immediately after the Italian armistice. Every effort was made to erase any evidence of this black spot of Italian history. The camp's buildings were destroyed, the materials were used to build a nearby kindergarten and the site was turned into a meadow.Only in 1973 a sacrarium was created by sculptor Miodrag Živkovi at the town's cemetery. Remains of 453 Slovenian and Croatian victims were transferred into its two underground crypts. It is believed that at least 50 additional persons died in the camp due to starvation and torture. Apart from the sacrarium no other evidence of the camp remains and even many locals are unaware of it.

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