"Shana Tovah" greeting card from the city of Buzău, Romania. [ca. mid 1940s?]. At the center of the greeting card is a round portrait of the senders – two soldiers in Soviet Red Army uniforms. In the background is a picture of a grand mansion on a lakeshore; today, this building is home to the Vasile Voiculescu Library. In the bottom margin, next to the portrait of the soldiers, is the Hebrew inscription "LeShanah Tovah Tikatevu" ("May you be inscribed for a good year"). The city of Buzău was captured by the Soviet Red Army in August, 1944. The city's Jewish population was severely persecuted during the war; the Jews were either deported to forced labor camps or confined to a ghetto. Only a handful of Jews remain today from what was once a community numbering more a thousand individuals. Approx. 8X4.5 cm. Good condition. Minor blemishes (mostly to edges). Traces of glue to verso.