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Swiss Airmail To Tel Aviv

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Blue envelope addressed to Hanna Kornfeld. Includes white censor tape and return address on back flap.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: Swiss airmail to Tel Aviv with censor marking.

Theresienstadt Postcard With Berlin Cancellation, Censored With Reply Instruction Cachet

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Tan postcard with black printed postcard lines. addressed in green ink to Julius Stern from Laura Stern. Includes message written in green ink.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: Postcard with Berlin cancellation to Julius Stern in Switzerland who Is in a labor camp, sent by family member (?) Stern, probably his wife, in Theresienstadt. Reply instructions cachet states that replies can only go through the Reich Association of Jews in Germany, Berlin-Charlottenburg 2, Kantstrasse 158. Another cachet reads that “replies only by postcards in the German language.” Censor markings.

Military Document Describing Cardinal Gerlier And Arrest Of Jews In Lyon, France By Klaus Barbie

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Typewritten document with red "Confidenciel" stamp and yellow folder.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Here, Klaus Barbie reports that on February 9, 1943, the "Jewish Committee for Protection of Émigrés and Poor Jews" on 12 Saint Catherine Street in Lyon was closed temporarily. "According to news," he continues, “we have known for a long time that this Committee has been secretly engaged in helping Jews and others reach Switzerland and financing them. The financing comes mostly from the Quaker association." He states that "the famous Cardinal Gerlier of Lyon, has been protecting this association, along with the fugitive R.P. …

Military Document Describing The Arrest Of Jews In Lyon, France, Ordered By Klaus Barbie

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A yellow folder and several sheets of typewritten information in German with red "confidenciel" stamps.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Klaus Barbie was an SS lieutenant and Gestapo member who personally tortured French Resistance prisoners and Jews while stationed in Lyon, France from 1942 to 1944. This two-page document concerns "dismantling" a Jewish committee, the Union Générale des Israéliens de France (U.G.I.F.) in Lyon. The documents describe the arrest of 86 Jews at Saint Catherine No. 12 Street of Lyons on February 9, 1943. The raid was ordered by Barbie. The Jews had helped themselves and others who wanted …

Letter From Der Aeltestenrat Der Judischen Kultusgemeinder (Fanny Sara Czarna), Sosnowitz, Poland To Alfred Szwarcbaum, Lausanne, Switzerland

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Tan paper with typewritten German message. Printed return address in upper left corner reading, "Der Leiter, Der Aeltestemrate der Jüdischem Kultusgemeinden in Ost - Oberschlesien."

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: Original typed letter on Judenrat official stationery, to Alfred Szwarcbaum in Lausanne, Switzerland, regarding food packets, thanking him for past shipments but noting that none have been received lately. They request him to start sending food packets urgently as they are essential for the lives of many of the ghetto inhabitants. Signed by Fanny Sara Czarna, head of the Judenrat.

Envelope From Bendsburg

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Front: Green envelope with black writing. Includes purple, blue and red hand stamps, a red and white pasted stamp in bottom left corner, and two pasted stamps on right: one green and one blue, each depicting Hitler in profile.Back: Black cursive writing, and black and blue hand stamps.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: Registered, censored cover from Isaac Israel in Bendsburg to Alfred Schwartzbaum in Lausanne, Switzerland with Czeladz registered label alongside. Bendsburg, German for Bendzin, was in the Katowice District of Poland. A Ghetto was created on July 1, 1941 containing 6,000 Jews who did slave labor for …