BACKGROUND: A common practice in Europe that continues to this day, is the issue of a remembrance card on the death of a family member. These would be distributed to friends and family as a memorial item.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: A single, double sided, light weight, card stock remembrance card with printed script and a close-up, black and white photograph. Some of the text reads "Funker Johann Pinker with the SS from Haibach. He died a heroic death in the West on September 26, 1944 at the age of 18." (Research shows that this SS-Funker (radio operator) died at the very end of Operation Market Garden in the Netherlands in September, 1944.)