Stalag VIII B – Jewish Prisoner of War correspondence to International Committee Red Cross Geneva
Effektenkammer ‘Gefangenen Eigentums Verwaltung’ Paketkarte (parcel receipt) from KZ-Außenlager Gusen, subcamp of Konzentrationslager Mauthausen stamped by the Verwaltung Abteilung Gefangenen, the so called Prisoner Property Administration. Prisoner Graczyk Boleslaus, born on 24 October 1882 in Kolin Poland, was transfered into the camp on 25 May 1940. He died on 15 March 1941. …
Other Belgium Red Cross postcards for parcel: Konzentrationslager Herzogenbusch (Kamp Vught) Konzentrationslager Ravensbrück
Eu-Aktion Eu-Aktion was a euthanasia program geared towards creating genetically pure Germanic people. Patients with psychiatric, neurological or physical disabilities, the ‘incurable’, were systematically eliminated. This euthanasia was seen as a ‘therapeutic act’ called ‘Gnadentod’ (a mercy death). Within the ‘Eu-Aktion‘ (the so-called Aktion T4 whose name was derived after WWII from its …