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LOT 64:
Three Souvenir Postcards - Liberation Day of the Mauthausen Concentration Camp
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Start price:
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Estimated price:
$200 - $300
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Three Souvenir Postcards - Liberation Day of the Mauthausen Concentration Camp
Three postcards published to celebrate the day the Mauthausen [Upper Austria] concentration camp was liberated.
* Postcard depicting a barbed-wire fence in the shape of lines of ropes in the form of a symphony of musical notes on which prisoners hang, with a uniformed SS soldier with a whip at front, and the inscription: Symphonia Diabolica Mauthausienis. Inscribed on the reverse: 'חגיגת יום השחרור' ['Liberation Day Celebration'] in Hebrew and other languages. Postmarked May 5, 1946.
* Postcard depicting US Army soldiers on liberation day, raising an American flag over the camp walls, with the scene of an SS soldier committing suicide by throwing himself on the electric barbed wire fence. "KZ Mauthausen" is written on the reverse, as well as 'חגיגת יום השחרור' ['Liberation Day Celebration'] in Hebrew and other languages. Postmarked May 5, 1946.
* Postcard depicting a chained hand signing "V" for victory. Postmarked June 20, 1946.
The Mauthausen concentration camp [Konzentrationslager Mauthausen] in Upper Austria was established in 1938 next to the city of Mauthausen. 38,000 Jews were murdered there; most died of forced labor. The camp was liberated in May of 1945, one of the last liberated by the US Army.
Identical size: 10x15 cm. Fine condition.
