Flossenburg Main Camp

Philatelic Materials

 

Envelopes

    Below are thumbnails of four envelopes.  The first is a cover from a prisoner, J. Grym to Bohemia.  The cover is identified in Lordahl as Type E2 with a Type C2 censor mark. The second cover is from the same prisoner and is postmarked July 18, 1941 to Bohemia. The cover is identified in Lordahl as Type E3a with a Type C3D censor mark.  The third cover is from September, 1944, from a prisoner, Josef Lansky to Bohemia.  The cover is identified in Lordahl as Type E4a with a Type C2 censor mark.   The fourth cover is from a prisoner, Alois Tomasek, to Bohemia.  The cover is identified in Lordahl as Type E4c with a Type C3D censor mark. Please click on the thumbnail to see the full image, and then click your back key or "Envelopes" in the left frame to return.

Flossenburg_Env_4.jpg (71977 bytes) Flossenburg_Env_1.jpg (79287 bytes) Flossenburg_Env_3.jpg (66142 bytes) Flossenburg_Env_2.jpg (89910 bytes)

Lettersheets

    Below are thumbnails of three lettersheets from prisoners at Flossenburg.  The first is from J. Grym dated February 22, 1942.  This lettersheet is identified in Lordahl as Type S5a with a Type C3B censor mark.  Please click on the thumbnail to see the full image, and then click your back key or "Letter 1" in the left frame to return.

Flossenburg_LS_2_1.jpg (98429 bytes)  Flossenburg_LS_2_2.jpg (97435 bytes)

    The second lettersheet is from a prisoner, Josef Lansky dated September 10, 1944 (see envelope 3 above).  This lettersheet is identified in Lordahl as Type S5aZ2 with a Type C3A censor mark and a type SC2 special cachet.  Please click on the thumbnail to see the full image, and then click your back key or "Letter 2" in the left frame to return.

Flossenburg_LS_3_1.jpg (94710 bytes)  Flossenburg_LS_3_2.jpg (98314 bytes)

    The third lettersheet is from a prisoner, Franz Munzar dated May 14, 1944.  This lettersheet is identified in Lordahl as Type S6aZ2 with a Type C2 censor mark nad a Type SC2 special cachet.  Please click on the thumbnail to see the full image, and then click your back key or "Letter 3" in the left frame to return.

Flossenburg_LS_1_1.jpg (107385 bytes)  Flossenburg_LS_1_2.jpg (106175 bytes)

Parcel Receipts

    Below are thumbnails of three parcel receipts for packages sent to inmates at Flossenburg.  The first receipt is for a package sent to inmate Antonin Stenkov from Dobruska, Moravia on June 2, 1944 and received in Flossenburg on June 9, 1944.  The second receipt is for a package sent to inmate Stanislav Ledlock from Brno, Moravia on October 17, 1944 and received in Flossenburg on October 30, 1944.  The third receipt is for a package sent to inmate Georg Rydkl from Hradec Kralove, Bohemia on October 19, 1944 and received in Flossenburg on October 30, 1944.  Please click on the thumbnail to see the full image, and then click your back key or "Parcel Receipts" in the left frame to return.

Flossenburg_PR_1.jpg (89705 bytes)  Flossenburg_PR_2.jpg (83025 bytes)  Flossenburg_PR_3.jpg (89521 bytes)

Postcard

    Below are thumbnails of the front and back of a postcard (Lordahl type P1) from an inmate at Flossenburg to Litzmannstadt postmarked December 11, 1941, with a Lordahl type C3 censor cancel.  The imprinted return address, "Verbeugungshaeftling" (preventive prisoner), is crossed out and "Schutzhaeftling" (protective prisoner) is written in by hand.  Please click on the thumbnail to see the full image, and then click your back key or "Postcard" in the left frame to return.

 

References

Erik Lordahl, German Concentration Camps 1933-1945, History and Inmate Mail (2000).  Referred to as Lordahl.

Copyright © 2001 Edward Victor