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Theresienstadt Postcard With Berlin Cancellation, Censored With Reply Instruction Cachet Jun 1943

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.


Polish Forced Laborer Workbook For Foreigner Jan 1943

Polish Forced Laborer Workbook For Foreigner

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Front: Cover with Nazi eagle.Interior: Identification information about worker, signature, as well as blank boxes. Back: A signature in green.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Polish forced laborer with photograph showing his “P” patch from 1943.


Wehrmacht Censored Envelope From Denmark To Switzerland Jan 1943

Wehrmacht Censored Envelope From Denmark To Switzerland

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Front: A white envelope with a typewritten address. Includes one purple and three red postage stamps, two black hand stamps, one blue sticker and censor tape, as well as purple and red pencil markings.Back: Includes censor tape as well as one purple and two red hand stamps.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: In approximately two weeks from the date of this letter, Denmark was to ferry most of its Jews to safety in Sweden.


Order To All Men From 16 To 65 To Bring Personal Belongings And Await Further Instructions Jan 1943

Order To All Men From 16 To 65 To Bring Personal Belongings And Await Further Instructions

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

An order by a German Comisar presumably posted in Ukraine.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Ukrainian broadside from 1943 signed in type by a German "Comissar" ordering all men from 16 to 65 to the homes of the eldest bringing all personal belongings to await further orders. Inevitably these men were destined for labor camps in Poland and Germany. They often worked and starved to death.