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This document is a variation of the card file of the Italian Red Cross. The Italian card file includes alphabetically ordered cards such as this one for Antonio Meylak. These are printed on greenish-gray paper, and the writing in the upper section is not in cursive. Abbreviated information about where the card was printed is located on the right edge instead of the left. This version of the card rarely appears in the Arolsen Archives, and it is not yet clear whether these cards were created for a particular group, which would indicate that the color of the card is significant.
This document is a variation of the card file of the Italian Red Cross. The Italian card file includes alphabetically ordered cards such as this one for Antonio Meylak. These are printed on greenish-gray paper, and the writing in the upper section is not in cursive. Abbreviated information about where the card was printed is located on the right edge instead of the left. This version of the card rarely appears in the Arolsen Archives, and it is not yet clear whether these cards were created for a particular group, which would indicate that the color of the card is significant.
Questions and answers
- What are considered variations in the e-Guide?
The e-Guide distinguishes between main cards and variations. The reason for this is that there are sometimes different versions of a single type of document that can vary significantly.
The documents referred to as main cards in the e-Guide are standard documents that were used especially frequently in concentration camps, DP camps, and for the registration of forced laborers, and about which a good deal of information is available. The Arolsen Archives also hold variations of these documents, however, which served the exact same purpose as the corresponding main cards, but which look different. There are various reasons for this: Some camps used their own individually produced cards instead of the standard versions. In many other cases, individual cards and forms were used before the introduction of standardized pre-printed forms.
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