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Letter From Chase National Bank Of The City Of New York To The American Consul, Vienna, Germany (German Family Escapes The Holocaust)
Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection
White paper with typewritten message. Includes a printed return address on the upper left, a signature in black, green and brown stamps and a black hand stamp.
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Group of items pertaining to the timely escape of a Jewish family from persecution in Hitler's Germany. Includes: (2015.2.202) a legalized copy of a letter from Chase National Bank to the American Consul in Vienna, Nov. 19, 1938, stating that the American Louis Cohen wishes to be responsible for the entrance of Salome Goldstein to the U.S., and further states that he maintains accounts at the bank …
Correspondence From An Austrian Jew
Correspondence From An Austrian Jew
Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection
White envelope with address handwritten to Soloman Weiser and return address to Wisn Weiser on the back flap.
Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:
The following correspondence may chronicle the fate of one Austrian Jew, including items 2012.1.306a, 2012.1.306b and 2012.1.306c. This third item is an envelope with an addressee at Buchenwald Concentration Camp, in which Buchenwald is crossed out. The Zuruck on front instructs to return to sender and boxed stamp impression on reverse advises "addressee allowed no mail until further notice."
Correspondence From An Austrian Jew
Correspondence From An Austrian Jew
Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection
Tan postcard with green printed postcard lines and a message written in pencil.
Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: The following correspondence may chronicle the fate of one Austrian Jew, including items 2012.1.306a, 2012.1.306b and 2012.1.306c. This second item is addressed to the same location in Vienna as 2012.1.306a, with a message that is difficult to read.
Correspondence From An Austrian Jew
Correspondence From An Austrian Jew
Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection
Tan postcard with green printed postcard lines and message written in pencil.
Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: The following correspondence may chronicle the fate of one Austrian Jew, including items 2012.1.306a, 2012.1.306b and 2012.1.306c. In this first item, one individual with the last name Weiser sends another Weiser -- both living in Vienna -- a postcard about returned laundry, greetings, and kisses, etc.. A purple stamped impression instructs the addressee to "reply only with postcard."
“Ein Volk Ein Reich Ein Führer” Postcard
“Ein Volk Ein Reich Ein Führer” Postcard
Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection
A white postcard with an illustration of Hitler's face on a map of Germany. Titled, "Ein Volk Ein reich Ein Führer." [One Folk, One Reich, One Leader] Includes a message written in black ink.
Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:
German postcard commemorating the Anschluss, the annexation of Austria into greater Germany March 13, 1938.
Hitler Youth Identification Card
Hitler Youth Identification Card
Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection
Interior: Black and white photograph of a young girl and biographical information.Exterior: Titled, "Mitglieds - Ausweis der Hitler-Jugend." Includes an image of a Swastika in a diamond and blank lines.
Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:
The ID of a young woman in the Hitler Youth. All women had to be of aryan heritage, citizens of Germany, and free of hereditary disease. As Jutta Ruediger, a leader of the German girls, states: girls were raised to "believe in Germany and our leader and pass on these beliefs to their children." Training consisted of sports (particularly gymnastics), philosophical education, and cultural …
Censored Spanish Civil War Postcard, From Las Palmas With German Message
Censored Spanish Civil War Postcard, From Las Palmas With German Message
Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection
Beige postcarde with red stamp of woman in old-fashioned bonnet in righthand corner. Black circular stamp over the stamp. Handwritten address to Berlin Germany. Two puple stamps, one on the left, 'Censura Militar Las Palmas', one at bottom, 'Alemania'. on the bottom. Back: Message handwritten in German with black ink.
Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:
Spanish Civil War. 1938 plain card from Las Palmas has message in German.
Waffen Ss Wehrpass For Herbert Fandke, A Guard At Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp
Waffen Ss Wehrpass For Herbert Fandke, A Guard At Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp
Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection
Small, green booklet titled "Wehrbaß" with Nazi seal on cover. Interior includes a photograph of a man, as well as other biographic information.
Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: Wartime issue Waffen SS Wehrpass issued August 30, 1938 in Celle, Germany to concentration camp guard Herbert Fandke. Fandke was a guard at KZ Sachsenhausen. In 1944, Fandke served in flak regiments in Russia and Kurmark. This document doubled as an assembly and muster order document.