Piotrowice was a town about 88 kilometers west of Lublin. Lublin was occupied by the Germans on September 18, 1939, and a Judenrat was formed in April, 1940. In March, 1941, about 10,000 Jews from Lublin were resettled in towns around Lublin, such as Piotrowice. The rest of the Jews were forced into a ghetto. The ghetto was liquidated by November, 1942, when the last Jews were sent to Majdanek.
Below are thumbnails of the front and back of a postcard postmarked May 26, 1941, from Piotrowice with a one line boxed Piotrowice handstamp. The postcard is addressed to K. Zauerman, Elektoralna Street, No. 31/2, Warsaw, which was inside the Warsaw ghetto walls. The card contains a three line boxed hand stamp of the Jewish postal agency dated May 28, 1941. When the postcard arrived in the Ghetto, a circular 20 Grozny delivery fee hand stamp was added (postage due fee for the Jewish postal agency). The message is as follows: "My dear ones. Please confirm that you have received the parcel sent on May 5. Did you receive anything from Riwka? she wrote you twice. Did you get it? There are some difficulties in mailing parcels, yet she will do her best. The prices went up recently, but we managed to survive. I write fast, as I want to mail you a parcel today. Love and kisses." Various names of relatives are also mentioned. Please click on the thumbnail to see the full image, and then click your back key or "Postcard" in the left frame to return.
Roman Mogilanski, The Ghetto Anthology, American Congress of Jews from Poland and Survivors of Concentration Camps (1985)
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