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Concentration Camp Transport Preparation Letter

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Typed letter on 'Reichsbahndireftion Berlin' letterhead; the name 'Hirsch, Dorothea' is underlined in red pencil.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

A document to the SS Economic Administration Department Group D, responsible for concentration camps, in Oranienburg from the Deutsche Reichbahn Administration Berlin, concerning a bureaucratic error regarding the list entry of a Jewish female prisoner, requesting to be informed if the camp has two inmates with the same name Dorothea Hirsch. The Reichbahn is sending along eight transportation lists in duplicate, requesting to be notified ahead of time in order to make arrangements with each respective concentration camp.

Theresienstadt Postcard With Berlin Cancellation, Censored With Reply Instruction Cachet

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

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.

Life Insurance Document For Margot Loewenstein

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

A typewritten document on red paper with a large red Star of David stamp with the word "Jude."

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

A very disturbing set of three typed documents (2012.1.44, 2012.1.45, 2012.1.46) from Berlin. Each is ominously stamped "Jude" in a large red Star of David, concerning the life insurance policy of one Margot Lowenstein of Hamburg, who fled Nazi Germany in August 1939 for England. Under German law, Jews who left the country or were forcibly deported were forced to forfeit any benefits or monies due on existing life insurance policies. The document, loosely translated in …

Postcard From Zagreb To Berlin

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Front: A tan postcard with red printed postcard lines and stamp. Includes a typewritten address, a blue postage stamp, as well as red, purple and green hand stamps.Back: Message written in black ink.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: Postcard from a Mr. Dragutin Tomic of the Pharmacological Institute in Zagreb to a Ms. E. Punge in Berlin. Includes a red Nazi armed forces (Wehrmacht) cachet stamped on the front. Mr. Tomic signs, "Heil Hitler!"

Envelope Addressed To Philipp Bouhler

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Front: Tan envelope with six varying postage stamps, each with a black circular hand stamp over it. Also includes a typewritten address, and red and white censor tape in upper left corner.Back: Two official seal stickers on back flap.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: Philipp Bouhler (1899-1945) was a Nazi leader who was both a Reichsleiter and Chief of the Chancellery of the Fuhrer of the Nazi Party. He was also the SS officer responsible for the Aktion T4 euthanasia program, developed with Karl Brandt, that murdered more than 70,000 disabled German adults and children. Arrested with his wife …