Potok Zloty was a town in the Tarnopol district of Poland (today Ukraine). An organized Jewish community dated from the 18th century, reaching a peak of about 1,250 (40% of the total population) in 1880. By 1921, the Jewish population had been reduced to about 900. The Germans occupied the town on July 10, 1941. In the fall of 1942, the remaining Jews were deported to Buczacz (see Buczacz).
Below are thumbnails of the front and back of a postcard sent by a mother, Mina Brechev, in the Potok Zloty ghetto to her daughter Rosa Lass in Basel, Switzerland, postmarked January 15, 1942. The card bears a handwritten message in German and a black Potok Zloty Judenrat hand stamp on the front. This woman was deported to Buczacz (see postcard in Buczacz). Please click on the thumbnail to see the full image, and then click your back key or "Postcard" in the left frame to return.
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Suchostaw/sl_potokzloty.htm
Spector, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust (2001), P. 1017
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