Description
Holocaust-era 2-way correspondence after Hungary's occupation of Yugoslavia: 26 MAY 1941 dated message in German on British Red Cross/Order of St. John Red Cross "postal message scheme" contact form, sent from daughter in JERUSALEM to mother in recently Hungarian-occupied UJVIDEK (NOVI SAD) in Vojvodina former Yugoslavia; the form was transmitted via the Red Cross office in GENEVA whose cachet is on the front & date-stamped 18 June; it was further transmitted to the locale via the Hungarian Red Cross, where a reply in German was typed on the back, on 17 July; the back is tied by the Hungarian Red Cross cachet, who transmitted the message back via Geneva, whose cachet and 1 Aug 1941 date-stamp are on the back; the message reached Palestine and the Jerusalem hexigonal censor cachet is tied on the back (a clear strike but unusually appears as "PALESTIN" - this unrecorded). There appear to be docketing numbers on the bottom front and back-top, in manuscript. Vertically folded.
Of significance here is that the locale was captured by Hungary from Yugoslavia around 17 April, whereupon the persecution of the Jews by Germany's allies began; on 22 June, during the transit time, Germany invaded the Soviet Union, followed by Hungary on the 27th. The transit time was roughly 2 months in either direction.
