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Rudolf Heilborn postcards from Buchenwald
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Contains two postcards written by Rudolf Heilborn from Buchenwald to Ruth Heilborn in Gleiwitz, Germany, in November and December of 1938. Rudolf Heilborn was among the Jews of Gleiwitz who were arrested by the Gestapo during Kristallnacht then deported to Buchenwald.
Rudolf Heilborn was imprisoned in Buchenwald and released in 1938. He and his wife Ruth Heilborn subseqently emigrated from Gleiwitz, Germany to the United States.
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