Monday, October 11, 2021

Partisan mail from evacuation hospital

Partisan mail was operated by couriers who carried mail between branched relay stations. The senders or recipients were usually in mobile partisan units or stationary bases such as military hospitals. One of such hospitals was SVPB-E, an evacuation hospital that operated in two locations in Bela Krajina near the partisan airport at Otok village. Patients waiting to be evacuated by plane gathered here. The first evacuations were to Italy and later to Dalmatia...

Partisan letter, sent from SVPB-E (= "Slovenska Vojno Partizanska Bolnica - Evakuacijska" = "Slovenian Military Partisan Hospital - Evacuation") to SNOS (= "Slovenski NarodnoOsvobodilni Svet" = "Slovenian National Liberation Council", transit via relay station "RS 15" on 9.III.1945. Very rare!

GLAVNA UPRAVA SVBP VII. KORPUSA NOV in POJ (= MAIN UNIT of SVBP of VII. CORPS of NOV and POJ)
NOV = "NarodnoOsvobodilna Vojska" = "National Liberation Army"
POJ = "Partizanskih Odredov Jugoslavije" = "Partisan Units of Yugoslavia"

Relay station "RS 15" was positioned in Kočevski Rog.