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Postcard - Pauline Neufeld to Wilhelm Neufeld

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Title
Postcard - Pauline Neufeld to Wilhelm Neufeld
Subject
World War, 1939-1945--Sources
War stories
Censorship
Internment camps--Australia
Jews, Austrian
German language--Writing
Correspondence
Category
4. World War II
Keywords
Dunera
Current holder
Jewish Museum of Australia
Date
November 10, 1941
Link
https://imu.jewishmuseum.com.au/collections/#details=ecatalogue.5572
Item number
3389
Access rights
Digitised
Country of origin
Austria
Place
Orange camp
Vienna
Language
German
Description from source
105 x 149 mm, Handwritten, printed and stamped. This postcard was written by Pauline Neufeld in 1941 in Vienna, and sent to her son, Wilhelm, who was being interned in Orange, at an Australian internment camp. The postcard is handwritten but contains no postage stamps or equivalent, as such classification was unnecessary for mail directed to prisoners of war. The correspondence has, however, been stamped for censorship by the mail authorities in Bendigo. The internment camp in Orange, New South Wales, was one of the camps internees were sent to in May 1941. The weather was colder than that in Hay, yet the conditions equally as horrendous.

Upper left, handwritten in ink: "Ubiender:" Pauline Neufeld, Wien 27 Karmel...serg 13. Upper right, handwritten in ink: "INTERNIERTEN SENDUNG," Mr Wilhelm Neufeld, INT. CAMP ORANGE, c/o District Censor, 45 Reservoir Str. Sydney, NSW, AUSTRALIA. Center left, stamped in blue ink: 3 Passed by Censor 390 Center left, handwritten in red ink: Bendigo Front side, hand written are the addresses of Pauline in Vienna and of Wilhelm in Orange Camp. Pink round step of the Third Rich, beside a purple step of the censor written: "3 passed by censor 390" Handwritten beneath the stamps: Bendigo, and a few more unclear words. On reverse, upper right, handwritten in ink: 10.11.1941 The rest of the text is handwritten in ink in German.
Physical format
Postcards