- £195.00
Germany. (Repatriation Mail). 1947. German postal stationery card 12pf grey upgraded with 'American Zone' 8pf red and 25pf orange tied by Ludwigsburg double ring '8.4.47', written by 'Poldi Antosch, Repatriation Center (Nuengammer), 26th Infantry, Ludwigsburg, U.S.A. Zone' addressed to 'Josef Antosch, Wein Osterreich' with circular 'Repatriation Center/ Ludwigsburg/ Official' hand-stamped 'Censored' with 'US Censor' rubber hand-stamp in violet and 'Osterreichische Zensurstelle/ 671' Austrian Zone censor in violet.
Josef Antosch (German) had been repatriated from Dehra Dun, British India P.O.W. Camp on the "S.S. "Marine Jumper" and arrived at Neuengamme on the 8th Dec 1946. His wife Poldi Antosch (Austrian) and resident of the Netherlands East Indies left Japan on the "Jumper" and writes after she arrives at the camp.
In the post war months Neuengammer Concentration Camp was used as a Soviet displaced persons camp and later a British and American Repatriation center.
Separated by the war Poldi and her children had not seen her husband in six years.
Ex Paul Bulterman's Prisoner of War collection and illustrated in his book "Nederlands Indie in Oorlog" page 49.
