1944, PARCELS WITH ARRIVAL NOTICE FROM THE PROTECTORATE POSTCARD NOTICE NUMBER 103,

if a parcel should have an arrivel notice or not was decided exxcxlusively by the recipient of the admission stamp in the Protectorate. The decision was not subjwct to the orders of the Ghetto commander and had no connection to the status of the prisoner - the addressee of the parcel. While collecting or receiving the stamp by mIL, the recipent could grt the arrival notice - a double postcard, divided by perforation in the middle into an upper and lower part. Both parts had a preprinted or typewritten German text. The sender of the parcel would fill it out and send it.  or hand it over to the Jewish Councilk of Eldsers in Pragye or to its branch office. Through theCentral Office for the Settlement of the Jewish Question, it was sent to Rerezin. The address part of the po9stcard with the arrivel notice mostly had the following preprinted text: "May be forwarded only through department G of the Jewish Council of Elders in Prague". The camp commander handed it over, through the Jewish Elder, to the post office in the ghetto. The post office arranged the delivery of the upper part of the form - the arrivel notice - to the future recipient of the package or parcel. The lower part was filled in by the recipient on del;ivery of the parcel, and then sent back in the same way. Theupper section, intended for the recipient of the parcel, had in the upper left corner space for the address of the sender, the date anb the address. Below it there was the text: "Today i have sent you a parcel on your admissiob stamp. Please confirm receipt. Signature".

The bottom section, had in the destination space-Theresienstaadt, as well as the date. The text ran: With thanks i confirm the receipt of your parcel of... Date andf Signature".,

POSTCARD REF. No A6/103 G - 5n - 6/m - III. 44 - A.D. 348