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Kenyon Collegian - December 10, 2015

The Kenyon Collegian

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Jewish Terror In Warsaw

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Front: A black and white photograph of Jewish men in heavy jackets being escorted by the military.Back: Several hand stamps and various writing. Includes source as International New Photo

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: News wire photo of Jews in Warsaw Ghetto. Verso: "Jewish terror in Warsaw" and "Jews in Warsaw" with a date stamp of November 7, 1941. The Warsaw Ghetto had been the largest ghetto in occupied Poland in the General Government with more than 400,000 residents. While there is no further information on this photo, these men are possibly being marched to a work camp. Deportations …

Transfer Of Farm Property To True Germans Document

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Front: White paper with printed black writing and lines. Includes written information and several purple hand stamps.Back: Includes several stamps and a purple signature.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: Probate court ensures only true Germans own farms. Legal folio, Cologne August 8, 1942, an 'Anerbengerichts' or inheritance court document approving the transfer of a farm to another party. The 'Anerben' laws were specifically established by the Nazis to ensure that German farms would be sold, inherited, or otherwise transferred only to those with pure German blood and that they would not be split up. The law actually saw farms …

Transatlantic Liner St. Louis

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Front: Black printed postcard lines. Includes a green postage stamp, handwritten message and black circular hand stamp.Back: Black and white photograph of a large ship.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: The inability of the Jews on the transatlantic liner St. Louis to disembark in Havana, the United States, or any of the chosen destinations was a great propaganda victory for the Nazis. On the 1939 voyage were 938 passengers, almost all Jews fleeing Nazi Germany. This postcard is of the St. Louis in the early thirties.

German Antisemitic Postcard

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Front: A black and white illustration of three Jewish men playing music and singing to various laughing animals and children. [Howling Wolf]Back: Black printed postcard lines.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: An early postally unused antisemitic postcard, a cartoonish sendup of Eastern Jews and their music, entitled “howling wolf.” Caricatures of three Jewish musicians playing their instruments while animals are howling and children are laughing gleefully.

German Antisemitic Postcard

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Front: A color drawing of a Jewish man selling contraband goods while three officers detain him.Back: Blank green postcarte lines with a penciled "Judaika!" in the upper right.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Postally unused antisemitic postcard of a Jewish merchant caught with contraband.

Envelope From "Israel"

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Blueish white envelope. Address written in blue cursive ink. Two pasted stamps in upper right: pink stamp with man in profile facing left, and blue stamp with Hitler's profile facing right. Black circular handstamp between them. Pasted Mit Luftpost stamp in upper left. Ink and pencil writing in bottom left, water damaged. Back: Address written in blue cursive ink on flap. White censor tape with black Nazi eagle circular emblem upside down on bottom. Red stamp of alternating circles with Nazi eagle and horizontal lines across censor tape.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: Israel Cover

Shana Tova [Happy New Year's], Celebrating Immigration

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

White card with blue border made to shape white cloud. Blue and red ship with Hebrew text on it, and blue airplanes. Red printed Hebrew text on right.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: Colorful Zionist Jewish New Year card created around the establishment of the Israeli state and its 1948 War of Independence, and soon after the Holocaust. It is designed with a message of hope for the immigration of Holocaust survivors and refugees from Europe. The text in Hebrew reads "A year of massive immigration," with images of a ship named Galila and airplanes. Sending Shana Tova-Jewish New …

Shana Tova [Happy New Year's], Dancing The Hora, Palestine

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Black and white photograph of people holding each other's arms and dancing around a fire. White Hebrew text in upper right corner. Interior: Printed and handwriting in Hebrew. Back: Hebrew and English text 'Made in Palestine' at bottom.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: Sending Shana Tova-Jewish New Year- cards has been a venerable Jewish tradition, even as the themes and motifs of these cards have changed with changing times and circumstances. Biblical themes were commonplace for many years. Later cards would reflect the customs and traditions of the eastern European shtetl Jews. Alternatively, they could evoke a sense of …

George F. Duckwitz

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Black and white photograph of a dower-looking man in glasses, with his dark hair slicked back, wearing a three-piece suit and tie. The tie has a pearl pin in it, and is askew. Back: Pasted sticker naming Duckwitz a West German personality. Beneath a black handstamp giving copyright to Camera Press.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Press photograph of George F. Duckwitz (1904-1973). Duckwitz had been a German businessman who joined the Nazi Party in 1932. He was eventually assigned to the German embassy in Copenhagen, Denmark, as an attaché. After 1942 Duckwitz worked with Werner Best, the Gestapo …

Der Stürmer Broadside

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Tan paper with black printed text in German. Includes a black and white illustration of a man in a helment in profile facing left, with an eagle to the left of him. The eagle holds a dying snake with Stars of David on it. Behind the man and eagle are many Nazi flags.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Broadside issued by Julius Streicher's virulently antisemitic newspaper Der Stürmer with Streicher's name at the masthead. The broadside promotes the idea that the S.A. and Der Stürmer are one, representing the same interests. The S.A. man in profile, soldiers marching behind, …

Young Judea Certificate Of Membership

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Front: A red card with a black printed border and black text. Includes a title in white against a black background with a white emblem including the Star of David in middle, typewritten information, and a printed signature.Back: Printed black text in English.

Kenyon Collegian - November 19, 2015

The Kenyon Collegian

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Early N.S.D.A.P. Armband

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Red armband with off-white circle and black swastika.

Kenyon Collegian - November 12, 2015

The Kenyon Collegian

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Kenyon Collegian - November 5, 2015

The Kenyon Collegian

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Sterilization Procedure Leaflet

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Front: White paper with a graphic black, white, and red illustration of the body being opened with medical instruments performing a sterilization procedure. Includes dotted lines pointing to certain parts of the body with descriptions at the end of them. Includes red and purple hand stamps, black printed text, and Tuerk's signature in black at the bottom.Back: Another graphic black, white, and red illustration of the body being opened with medical instruments performing a sterilization procedure. Includes dotted lines pointing to certain parts of the body with descriptions at the end of them. Includes printed text at the bottom.

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Niederschrift [Oath Of Office] Signed By Marianne Tuerk

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Tan paper with two hole punches on the left side and printed text in German. Includes printed Nazi seal on top, as well as several pencil signatures and purple hand stamps.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Marianne Tuerk was a medical doctor who had been imprisoned for murdering children at Kinderspital Am Spiegelgrund, the children's clinic in Vienna, as part of the Nazi “euthanasia” program known as Action T4, headed by Philipp Bouhler. Along with neurologist Margarethe Heubsche and Ernst Illing, the head of the "clinic," she claimed that the murders were ordered from Berlin to "purify and improve …

Postcard From Belzyce Ghetto

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Front: Tan postcard with message written in purple pencil.Back: Printed postcard lines in brown with writing in pencil. Includes black and purple hand stamps, a green pasted stamp of a man in profile facing left, and a red arrow.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: Polish postcard bearing scarce small boxed BELZYCE alongside of German franking, addressed in pencil to Berlin. Belzyce, a small town in the province of Lublin, Poland, was overcome by Germany in September, 1939. A ghetto was established 1940 which housed Jews from Belzyce as well as other towns in Poland. The liquidation of the ghetto …

Envelope From Krakow Ghetto

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Front: Green envelope with typewritten address. Includes several purple and black hand stamps, some writing in pencil, and a pasted brown stamp depicting a buildling in upper right corner.Back: Address written in black cursive ink.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Envelope franked General Government 6 pfg. tied Krakow cds, from Zydowska Samopomoc Spoleczna (Jewish Self-Help Society) in Krakow Ghetto to Rada Zydowska (Jewish Aid Society) in Wadlew, Poland. One of the five major metropolitan ghettos in the General Government territory created by the Nazis, Krakow was surrounded by barbed wire and brick walls shaped as tombstones. 18,000 Jews were …

Kenyon Collegian - October 29, 2015

The Kenyon Collegian

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Aftermath Of Execution

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Greyed black and white photograph of a mass grave. Dead bodies in the ground, a line of soldiers in dark colors stand above it. Barracks in the background.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: An especially rare and graphic candid photograph with deckled edges. Fifteen soldiers in greatcoats are marching along the edge of a pit as an officer looks down upon the bodies of the newly-killed prisoners and as another soldier in the pit appears to administer a coup de grace to a dying man with an uplifted arm. Such photos were strictly forbidden by the Nazis, yet clearly …

Postcard From Rzeszow, Lvov District, Poland

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Front: Tan paper with black printed text and dotted lines, filled in with blue cursive ink. Includes purple and black hand stamps on the top, and a long red line through the card.

Back: Printed black postcard lines and address. Includes blue writing on lefthand side, as well as purple, black and red hand stamps, a purple pasted stamp of Hitler in profile on top right, and pencil markings on the bottom of the page.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

RELICO card to Geneva, General Gouvernement 30 pfg tied Rzeszow cds, bearing small boxed Judenrat Reichshof along with Nazi …

Briefaktion (Operation Mail) Postcards, Auschwitz

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Front: Tan postcard with message written in purple pencil. Back: Black printed postcard lines with writing in purple pencil. Includes a purple hand stamp on bottom left, and several black hand stamps on top right, and a pasted purple stamp of Hitler in profile at the top right.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: One of four cards (2015.2.105 -.108) with Deutsches Reich franking on card from Birkenau to Prague, bearing 5 line "Rukanwort nur auf Postkarten in deutscher Sprach uber die Reichvereiningung der Juden in Detuschland..." 1944. Among the many deceptions used by the Nazis to deflect rumors and …

Drancy, France Internment Camp Food Package Card

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Tan paper with printed black text and a purple circular hand stamp in upper lefthand corner.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Unused food package card with violet triple ring cachet "CAMP D'INTERNMENT DE DRANCY." Drancy was a high-rise apartment complex in the northeast suburb of Paris in the 1930s before the Nazis confiscated it and utilized it as an internment camp to hold Jews and other “undesirables” who were later deported to the extermination camps. 65,000 Jews were deported from Drancy, of whom 63,000 were murdered including 6,000 children. The Vichy government under Petain and Laval cooperated with Nazi …

Kenyon Collegian - October 22, 2015

The Kenyon Collegian

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Kenyon Collegian - October 15, 2015

The Kenyon Collegian

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Commemorative Australian First Day Cover Featuring Schutz-Passes Signed By Raoul Wallenberg

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Front: Reproduced images of Schutz-passes with postage stamp of Raoul Wallenberg in top right; Back: ‘JSR 5/5’

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: Only 5 issued.

Commemorative Australian First Day Cover Featuring Raoul Wallenberg And Flora Hegedus

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Front: Reproduced work permit with photograph of Flora Hegedus at left; postage stamp with image of Raoul Wallenberg top right; Back: ‘JSR 2/5’.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Commemorative Australian First Day Cover from 2015 showing a signed Wallenberg work permit under Swedish authority for a Flora Hegedus. Only 5 issued.

Kenyon College Alumni Bulletin - Fall 2015

Kenyon College Alumni Bulletin

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