Miedzyrzec Podlaski is a town in the Lublin Province of eastern Poland. At the outbreak of the war, there were about 12,000 Jews in the town. During the first year of the Nazi occupation, about 4,000 Jews from other places were deported to the town, including about 1,000 from Slovakia. A ghetto was created in the summer of 1942. Deportations to Treblinka began in August, 1942, and the ghetto was liquidated in November, 1942. Over 11,000 Jews perished in these deportations.
Below are thumbnails of the front and back of a postcard from a Julius Weiss sent through the Judenrat in Miedzyrzec Podlaski to Bratislava, Slovakia. He must have been one of the 1,000 Slovakian Jews deported to the town. The card bears the 2-line Judenrat cachet. Please click on the thumbnail to see the full image, and then click your back key or "Svatoborice" in the left frame to return. Please click on the thumbnail to see the full image, and then click your back key or "Postcard" in the left frame to return.
Spector, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust (2001), P. 821-22
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