Red Cross, Katowice (Poland) (1945) | Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust

Name: Red Cross, Katowice (Poland) (1945)

Historical Note: A Red Cross certificate from Katowice, Poland. Translated, the Red Cross certificate says “The Polish Red Cross confirms that Philip Pinkus Raucher, born 1, 2, 1927, Czeladz, Poland, numbered no. 25414, was a prisoner in camp Funfteichen from March 1944 to 1945 and is going to his home in Czeladz. Authorities, military, and civilian are asked to help and give information. Katowice, March 8, 1945.”  The backside of the Red Cross certificate has a German stamp that enabled Philip to receive food rations in Munich, Germany for a limited specified time (dates illegible) in 1945.

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