1940s Dehra Dun India POW Internment Camp Cover To Huntington PA USA Kertscher

Item Specifics

Country

India

Catalog Number

1940s

Stamp Type

General Issue

Condition

Cover (Postal History)

Stamp Format

Single

Item Description

Up for auction is a beautiful censored cover from the Prisoner of War, POW, camp internment Premnagar camp in Dehra Dun, India to Huntington PA USA . Beautiful cancels and markings. PostmarkEd in The 1940s . In good condition see the punch holes . Priced to sell. The Dehra Dun camp held Jewish detainees who were German citizens who had fled Germany before the war. Refered to by the British at "Friendly enemy aliens" they were locked up for the duration of the war. Extremely rare and scarce, about 850 Jewish refugees were imprisoned in British India during the war. Note this cover says it was mailed by a prisoner in the central interment camp . Sender Is W Kertschen.

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