Flossenburg Concentration Camp Unique Correspondence Grouping – Item 93436

A unique and historically interesting group of 10 prisoner letter sheets from a prisoner who survived Flossenburg Concentration Camp. The prisoner from Czechoslovakia survived in what was probably one of the hardest camps. Flossenburg camp some 120km from Nuremberg near the Czechoslovakian border because of its location near stone quarries was taken over by the Dest Company (An SS owned Company) and most prisoners were employed in the stone quarries for hard labour. It was graded by the SS as a Category 3 Camp. The mortality rate in the quarries was extreme and a prisoner rarely lasted more than three months. Therefore making this group of 10 letter sheets unique and probably means he was employed within camp administration. The prisoner Jaroslav Faltus (2353) consists mainly of letters to his father. Interestingly two of the letters have had sections deleted by the camp censor. This would normally have had severe consequences for the writer. Some of the letters have had the postage stamps removed and later replaced. This was normally done to check for secret messages under the stamps. The letter sheets date from 14 April 1940 – 9 July 1944. The US Army liberated the camp on April 23 1945. A remarkable and unusual grouping of ephemera from one of the hardest Concentration Camps.