Sanok was a city near Krosno. The Germans occupied the town on September 9, 1939, and a Judenrat was formed at the end of 1939, The ghetto was formed in September of 1942 and liquidated in February of 1943. About 1,000 persons passed through the ghetto. The inhabitants of the ghetto worked in a railroad car factory and repaired roads. An open ghetto was created in the summer, 1941, and at its peak, the population of the ghetto reached over 10,000. Beginning in September, 1942, most of the ghetto residents were deported to the Zaslawie camp and from there to Belzec. The ghetto was liquidated in February, 1943.
Below are thumbnails of the front and back of a parcel receipt card for a parcel sent from Sanok to the Warsaw ghetto, with a Sanok postmark dated May 2, 1941. The acknowledgment on the back of the card contains a Warsaw Ghetto receiving cachet and a date-receiving cachet with signature dated May 9, 1941. Please click on the thumbnail to see the full image, and then click your back key or "Parcel Receipt" in the left frame to return.
Below are thumbnails of the front and back of two postcards. The first is a postcard dated December 5, 1941, from Sanok to Zurich. The postcard contains numerous censor marks and appears to be from the Herman Goring labor camp. The second is a postcard postmarked December 9, 1941, from Sanok to Vienna. The postcard contains the stamp of the Judenrat Sanok. Please click on the thumbnail to see the full image, and then click your back key or "Postcards" in the left frame to return.
Spector, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust (2001), P. 1135-36
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