Oleszno, Poland

General

Oleszno was a small town in the Kielce district of Poland. There were a small number of Jews in the town at the time of the German occupation. The Jews were deported from the town on September 19, 1942, to Wlosczowa and from there to the Treblinka death camp.

Postcard

Below are thumbnails of the front and back of a postcard sent by a man named Wajintraub in Oleszno to the Judenrat in the Lodz ghetto, postmarked July 4, 1941. The handwritten message requests information about a family named Offenau (Michal and Maria) and his sister with the name of Schwarzberg. The card bears a circular violet Judenrat Rada Zydowska in Oleschno/Olesznie and an Oleszno box cancel. There is a short reply from Lodz handwritten in green.

References

Spector, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust (2001), P. 933

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