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Croatian Ustasha Concentration Camp Work Permit Sep 1943

Croatian Ustasha Concentration Camp Work Permit

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

White slip with printed black text with additional writing in purple pencil. Includes a purple hand stamp and a signature in black ink.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Partly printed and handwritten, issued by the Nazi-aligned Croatian government. Croatia Mitrovica, 9/28/1943. The document permits a detainee to work outside the camp for a period of 15 days and is signed by the camp administrator. It concludes: "ZA DOM SPREMNI!" ["FOR THE HOMELAND - READY!"] These camps were used for the murder of thousands of Serbs, Jews, Roma, and Muslims for religious and political reasons.


Postcard From Freital, Germany Forced Labor Camp Feb 1943

Postcard From Freital, Germany Forced Labor Camp

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Front: Tan postcard with purple printed postcard lines. Includes text written in green ink and a black hand stamp.Back: Message written in green ink.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Postal card to a prisoner in the forced labor camp in Freital near Dresden, Germany, sent by a person in Bohemia and Moravia. Freital was the site of a forced labor camp consisting of about 4,000 to 5,000 prisoners working for the Saechsische Gusstalwerke (metal casings).


Censored Dual Reply Postcard From Slave Labor Camp In Nurnburg, Germany Jan 1943

Censored Dual Reply Postcard From Slave Labor Camp In Nurnburg, Germany

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Front: White postcard with purple printed postcard lines. Includes text written in purple ink, and black and red hand stamps.Back: Printed purple lines.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: A "Gemeinschaftslager" cover. The card's content is censored and the recipient did not respond with their portion of the cover. Sent from the Deutsche Star Kugelhalter GMBH. Note the markings from the Keim and Company, which enslaved the prisoners.


Postcard From Prisoner In Neuruppin, Germany Slave Labor Camp Jan 1943

Postcard From Prisoner In Neuruppin, Germany Slave Labor Camp

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Front: White postcard with printed purple postcard lines. Includes writing in blue ink, and black and purple hand stamps.Back: Message in blue ink written on printed purple lines.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Censored dual reply cover from a prisoner-laborer in the forced labor camp of Neuruppin, Germany to Kiev in the Ukraine. Gemeinschaftslager cover. The card is censored with no response from the recipient.