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The Nazis used post cards from the concentration prisoners to find more Jews.

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Most of the postcards would not have been sent to any Jews in hiding. This would have been foolish. Most of the postcards, that were sent to Jews, were sent to addresses in Ghettos.

Some postcards were supplied to the concentration camp prisoners to use to acknowledging the receipt of red cross parcels.

Others had a more sinister purpose. Some prisoners had to send them to relatives still in the ghetos, what was written on them dictated by the SS. They basically said I am fine, I've arrived fine and then the writers were sent for extermination. It is thought they were done to try and hide the genocide from the general population.

Sometimes the postcards were just that. Quick notes sent to people outside the camp to let them know they were still alive.

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