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POW New Year Greeting card 1943

Prisoner of War Greeting Card

Hand crafted New Year greeting card
121 x 146mm (4¾ x 5¾in)

A curiously cheerful New Year greeting card for 1943 from a prisoner of war interned in Biberach camp. Inscription inside reads "To darling Nance from Boodle".

Biberach was one of a number of camps used to hold deported Channel Islands residents during the Second World War.

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