(Camp LETTERS). Kolakowski Czeslaw, Two letters to Stefania Kolakowska from Stalag XA on original Kriegsgefangenepost blanks.

Two letters to Stefania Kolakowska from Stalag XA on original Kriegsgefangenepost blanks.

Format: 19.5 x 15 cm and 34 x 14.5 cm (folded letters). Date. 1 VI 1941, the other without date.
Letters from Czeslaw Kolakowski, a Varsovian, from the 1939 Stalag XA camp in Schleswig for Polish prisoners of war. Handwritten on original blank. Two different camp stamps. Describes his longing for his family. He did not count on being transported from the internment camp in Romania to Germany. He reports that he signed up "as a civilian" and does work outside the camp which gives him satisfaction. Significant old traces of stearin flooding the edges. Stamps, date entry in red crayon.