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Lot 419

Two Postcards with Photographs of the POW Camp Stalag VIII-B – Postcard Sent to Palestine from a Jewish Soldier

Two postcards with photographs of soldiers from the German POW Camp Stalag VIII-B. [Lamsdorf, first half of the 1940s].
On the recto of each postcard is a group photo of soldiers and on the verso is an authorization stamp of the Stalag (two different stamps). One is inscribed with the details of the sender, Herman Eshtern, and of the addressee, Rachel Eshtern of Ra'anana (handwritten in pencil).
Size of postcards: 9X14 cm. (one is a bit larger). Good-fair condition. Sptains and minor defects. One postcard has a filing hole in the left margin, pen mark above one of the people in the photograph and staple holes to the bottom margin.