Bidspirit auction | Hungary 1939-1940: two pencil-written postcards

Hungary 1939-1940: two pencil-written postcards to the Jewish physician Dr. Duschinszky Ede, Rakospalota. One from Munkacs, October 1939, headed with the Hebrew letters B”H, from a Jewish soldier describing the harassment (”frog jumps”) and asking for a deferment; the other field post 43, 6.9.1940, from a trooper of the 2nd cavalry squadron in the days of the Hungarian army's entry into Northern Transylvania - 1. Hungarian 10 filler postal stationery card (1939 printing, State Printing Office, Budapest), MUNKÁCS cancel, October 1939, to ”Dr. Duschinszky Ede, physician, Rákospalota, Horthy Miklós út 83”. The message side opens with the Hebrew letters B”H and ”Dear Ede” and is filled on both sides with close pencil handwriting. The writer, in military service at Munkács (the town returned to Hungary in November 1938), in the year the labour service for Jews was introduced, describes his day: up at half past four, ”in the evening harassment too”, ”in vain, the only Jew”, ”frog jumps”, stomach and kidney pains, and asks Ede to write to a fellow physician and obtain him a deferment of one year. Sender: Davidovics, Munkács, No. 132. 2. Hungarian field post card (Tábori postai levelezőlap, 1940) from a soldier of the 2nd cavalry squadron (2. lov. szd.), field post number 43/6, written 6.9.1940 and cancelled at field post office 43 on 9.9.1940, with the unit's oval censorship mark ELLENŐRIZVE 1940 and a signature, to the same addressee. ”My dear Ede”: thanks for the 20 pengő received, ”now, during the entry marches, one needs money”, ”the receptions are very nice, they welcome us with celebrations”, tired, no time to write. Along the foot: ”Tonight we were quartered at Oláhszentgyörgy” (Bistrița-Năsăud county): the entry of the Hungarian army into Northern Transylvania after the Second Vienna Award, 5-13 September 1940. Common to both: the same addressee, a Jewish physician in Rákospalota bearing the surname of the town's rabbis, the Duschinszky family, whose name appears in the 1940 register of the Hungarian Medical Chamber. The Rákospalota community, over 2,600 Jews in the early 1930s, was deported to Auschwitz in July 1944 through the Budakalász brickyard. Both cards complete, the pencil writing legible, light stains and creases, exactly as photographed.