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Denmark Christmas With Seal & King Christian X Stamp

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Front: Colored illustration of a winter scene, including several trees and a bridge.Back: Tan postcard with black printed postcard lines. Includes writing in black ink, blue and purple postage stamps and several black hand stamps.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: This 1943 Christmas card was written less than two months after the Danes ferried the Jews of Denmark to safety in Sweden.

Letter On Dachau Inmate Stationery

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Letter written in black ink on Dachau lined stationery. Includes two messages from different dates.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Translation of two messages written on different dates:

10 October 1943 Dear Jadcia: I beg your pardon for not writing to you sooner. I did not forget you. Because of your coming birthday I am sending you my best wishes, I believe that the love in my heart to my people is more important than writing and wish for you that all of your wishes come true. With hearty greetings to your parents to you and ? W. Rabikowski …

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.

Theresienstadt Package Receipt

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Green slip titled, "Zpáteční lístek" (return ticket). Addressed to Marie Kolská, "manzelka fotografa" (wife of the photographer). Includes writing in pencil.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Slip acknowledging receipt of a package in Theresienstadt

[Related items: 2012.1.356b, 2012.1.356c, 2012.1.356d]

Envelope From Drancy Internment Camp

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Off-white envelope with purple Bureau de la Censure in upper lefthand corner and black writing. Includes a pasted stamp of a man in profile facing left. Sent locally within Paris from the Drancy Internment Camp.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: Cover sent locally within Paris, franked 1.50f violet triple ring cachet "CAMP D'INTERNMENT DE DRANCY."

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 …

Letter From Dachau Prisoner

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Tan Dachau stationery. Includes printed text with letter-writing rules, as well as printed lines for the letter. The letter is written in green ink.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Letter on Dachau concentration camp stationery signed, "Your father Vlacek." This letter has markings showing censorship by the central mail office in Dachau and has a city postmark of April 14, 1943. As was typical, the inmate stationery bears printed warnings. It is stamped with a red German 12 pfennig stamp bearing the likeness of Nazi Führer Adolf Hitler -- the kind of stamp the rules allowed relatives to send …

Arrest Warrant From Vilna Ghetto

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Tan paper with typewritten words and blanks, filled in with blue pencil. Includes other writing in gray and purple pencil, and several purple hand stamps.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

One of four arrest warrants bearing Vilna (Vilnius: Lithuanian) Ghetto handstamp in violet and red. Of the more than 60,000 Jews living in Vilnius before the German occupation, 21,000 were murdered over the course of the summer of 1941 by German troops, Einsatzgruppen A, and their Lithuanian collaborators. The effort was to establish a ghetto to imprison all Jews of Vilna and suburbs in the old Jewish quarter of …

Form Issued To Prisoner 5494 In Lwow Ghetto

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Front: Tan form with printed information in a list on the lefthand side and information written in pencil in printed boxes on the righthand side. A blue oval stamp with Star of David on lefthand side, and a red checkmark in the middle. Back: Printed information in a list on the lefthand side (bullet points 9-12) and information written in pencil in printed boxes in the righthand side. Includes a purple stamp with date in middle. These pre-printed forms were used for determining an individual's work in the Lwow Ghetto.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: Pre-printed form, double-sided, used …

Form Issued To Prisoner 55829 In Lwow Ghetto

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Front: Tan form with printed information in a list on the lefthand side (eight bullet points) and information written in blue ink in printed boxes on the righthand side. A blue oval stamp with the Star of David on the lefthand side. Back: Printed information in a list on the lefthand side (bullet points 9-12) and information written in blue ink on the top box. Purple stamp in middle. These pre-printed forms were used for determining an individual's work in the Lwow Ghetto.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: Pre-printed form, double-sided, used for determining individual's work, each with blue …

Theresienstadt Ghetto Stamp

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Green stamp on serated paper. Titled, "Theresienstadt" with green illustration of trees and hills.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: Theresienstadt Concentration Camp stamp prepared on order of the Nazis to be distributed to the Red Cross officials inspecting the ghetto. It was done to convince the inspectors that life in the ghetto was not too bad.