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Aleph Zadik Aleph B'Nai B'Rith Youth Organization National War Service Convention By Mail

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Front: White program with text in blue ink. Title printed between illustrations of menorahs made from Stars of David. Includes a photograph of a young man speaking into a microphone at a podium, with various greeting cards and ballots on either side of him coming out through a mailbox in upper left corner. Lines of mailmen spew from the mailbox.

Envelope With Antisemitic Stamp

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Blue envelope with address written in ink. Includes a pasted pink stamp with a caricature of a Jewish face

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

This cover with Jewish Star of David superimposed upon a caricatured, particularly repulsive “Jewish” face commonly used on Julius Streicher’s tabloid products and drawings, here on regular mail with a message about the importance of resolving the “Jewish question,” has clearly resonated with the German public.

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 …

"Broken Shackles" German Antisemitic Poster

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

White paper with green background. Black text in upper left corner. Depicts a shirtless man in shackles looking down at a crude caricature of a Jewish man with a large belly, wearing maroon and has a yellow Star of David on his clothes. He sits upon a mountain of skulls.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Antisemitic, Soviet poster possibly produced by Nazi Germany after the invasion of the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarosa in 1941. It has a caricature of a disreputable Jewish man sitting on top of a group of skulls. A figure is hovering over the seemingly …

Polish Money With Stars Of David

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Paper money titled, "Bank Emisyjny Wpolsce." Includes blue stamps with the Star of David from the Warsaw Ghetto on either side.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: Fantasy material with Stars ink-stamped after WW II

Warsaw Ghetto Scrip

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Four pieces of scrip. Each are printed in blue on tan paper. Includes larger notes worth 25 and 50, and smaller notes worth 10 and 15. Each has designs that include a Star of David.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: Once they were deported to the ghettos or concentration camps, prisoners in some camps would be issued scrip (pieces of essentially useless pieces of paper that had no value outside the particular facility) by the Nazis in exchange for their confiscated valuable currency. Ghettos or camps could have their own distinctive scrip and coins, often with many different issues. …

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 …

Lvov Ghetto Work Form

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Front: Tan paper with printed black boxes and text, with various hand stamps and writing in black ink.Back: Printed black boxes and text with black ink writing.These documents determined an individual's work in the Lvov Ghetto.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: Pre-printed form used for determining an individual's work in Lvov, with blue oval Lvov Ghetto stamps.