AN ENVELOPE POSTED FROM AUSCHWITZ BY SIMON SIKON TO HIS WIFE...

Hammer

£70

AN ENVELOPE POSTED FROM AUSCHWITZ BY SIMON SIKON TO HIS WIFE IN KRAKAU. An envelope posted from Auschwitz Concentration Camp in 1941, addressed to Frau Maria Sikon in Krakau, the senders details given as Simon (?) Sikon, born on the 28th October 1900, number 3300 with address including 'Block 2'. The left hand side of the envelope printed with instructions regarding postage, the last two being: 6. Requests for release from protective custody to the camp management are pointless 7. Permissions to speak and visit prisoners in the concentration camp are generally not permitted. The envelope 11.3 x 16cm. It is suggested that prisoners with a number in this range arrived at the camp on the 30th August 1940. With three further prisoner of war letters, one to a Mr and Mrs Green in Jersey from Leslie Green from Laufen camp, another to South Wales from a German prisoner of camp and a third 'Feldpostbief' letter with third reich stamp (4) *Condition: First with slight tears along top edge, hope above 'Frau' otherwise a good example. The others reasonable for age and material.