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ViewMate Posting VM 41805
Submitted by Jeffrey Mark Knisbacher
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Translation - German
Approval Date:
8/23/2015 4:01 PM
Family Surname: Banner/Bonner/Knisbacher
Country: Germany
Town: Maybe Berlin
Date of Image: March, 1917
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This is the same card as before but rotated to allow easy reading of the text at the top. At the very top left I see something like Ziet... Can anyone tell me what this really is? Also, is this photo studio known to anyone? Does anyone else have a card like this?
On the text message I can read, I think, "in besten.." but I can't read the middle text until I get to the end which seems to say "von dein Bruder Isak Knisbacher". Is at least that correct?
Apparently, from the cancellations, this card was sent out(from Berlin?) on 14 March,1917, and received at some "lager" in Austria (from the previous horizontal image) on 21 March, 1917. Does the lack of a postage stamp definitely mean my grandfather Isak Knisbacher was serving, or had served, in the German army--about which I had never heard anything before. Of course he died in 1918, supposedly of the swine flu, so my father, who was just 5 years old at the time, never knew him. Could he have succumbed to the flu because of the war?
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