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1918 (Jun 21) Black on Blue Kriegsgefangenen-Karte pre addressed Serbian Red Cross, Ennnismore Gardens, London SW 7 printed reply card confirming receipt of package from C. Hitie Prisoner of War at Nagymegyer with violet circular smudged Post Officer of the Camp & mauve triangular Wien censor hand stamps & orange London F.S. /Paid (3 Nov) arrival date stamp with on reverse unframed 3 line Confirmation of receipt of the package by the Serbian Red Cross plus unframed 3 line hand stamp of the Young Mens Association of Hungary with facsimile signature both in violet …….Nagymegyer in now a days Slovakia was in 1919 a community of 416 Jews & by 1942 this had risen to 522. The Germans deported all to Auschwitz with only 20% survivors returning to an unwelcoming local new population. The town currently has no Jewish inhabitants…A stark reminder of how the holocaust destroyed entire communities