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Enigma Machine
Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection
A color photograph of the Enigma machine.
Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: Enigma machine invented by Germans for transmitting secret military information. Alan Turing and others at Bletchley Park's cipher program in England were able to break the Enigma code which helped with the Allied war effort.
Letter From Mavis Batey
Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection
Front: A note written in blue ink on white paper in English.Back: The letter continues. Includes a signature.
Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: A letter written by Mavis Batey, one of the leading code breakers at Bletchley Park in World War II, and crucial to the success of D-Day. Along with Dilly Knox and Margaret Rock, she was instrumental in breaking the Enigma cipher used by the German secret service, the Abwehr. Bletchley Park was a mansion 50 miles northwest of London, and was the top secret wartime home of Government Communications Headquarters, or "Station X." Mrs. Batey's husband …