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Postcard From "Sara" Nov 1940

Postcard From "Sara"

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Message written vertically in black cursive ink. Back: Pink printed postcard lines. Return address in upper left corner written in ink. Beneath it is vertical message written in ink. Address printed on written lines on right side. Blue Mit Luftpost stick beneath address. Two pasted stamps in upper right: purple of man in profile facing left, and red of man in profile facing left. Each has a black circular stamp with Swastika in it. To the left of them is an Examiner stamp with a crown in blue.

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Jewish Snakes Antisemitic Postcard Jun 1940

Jewish Snakes Antisemitic Postcard

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Blank postcard with an illustration of shirtless German men pulling a plow over snakes with the Star of David on their heads.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Antisemitic German postcard from 1940, depicting German soldiers killing snakes in a field. The heads of the snakes have Stars of David.


Letter From Haavara Limited, Tel-Aviv Jun 1940

Letter From Haavara Limited, Tel-Aviv

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Two page Letter on acidic tan paper. Haavara title in English and Hebrew on top in blue. Beneath a typewritten message, including several ink-written checkmarks. Second page continues the typewritten text with signature in bottom right.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Haavara was a company established in 1933 as the result of an agreement between the Jewish Agency (the official Jewish executive in Palestine) and the Nazi regime. The Trust and Transfer Office Haavara Ltd. was established in Tel Aviv to facilitate Jewish emigration to Palestine. Though the Nazis had ordered Jewish emigrants to surrender most of their property …


Letter From Lancut, Poland To Officer Pow May 1940

Letter From Lancut, Poland To Officer Pow

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Note written on off-color, hole-punched notebook paper in pencil. A red German stamp on the upper left. Envelope: Off-white, coffee-stained envelope written in Polish in blue ink with a black stamp. A red checkmark next to the prisoner's number.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

A POW letter sent from Lancut, Poland to a Polish Officer POW in an OFLAG Camp near Lubec, Germany. After Germany invaded Poland, the Polish army surrendered four weeks later. Captured Polish officers were imprisoned in Offizierlager Camps or Oflags. Enlisted men were imprisoned in Mannschaftsstammlager camps or Stalags. Dr. Naworol is a medical POW …


National Registration Identity Card For Salome Goldstein (German Family Escapes The Holocaust) May 1940

National Registration Identity Card For Salome Goldstein (German Family Escapes The Holocaust)

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Front: A tan card with a black border. Includes a large black seal on top with crown and shield and a black printed title.Interior: Tan card with printed boxes and writing in English, as well as written information in with black and blue ink, a purple AIBA stamp on either page and a signature at the bottom right.

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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. …


Postcard From Arthur Cohn In Shanghai To Dr. Siegfried Walter In Gleiwitz, Germany Mar 1940

Postcard From Arthur Cohn In Shanghai To Dr. Siegfried Walter In Gleiwitz, Germany

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Front: Typewritten message. Back: 'Carte Postale - Chine.' Includes orange Chinese characters, and a printed stamp in orange on upper right corner showing a man with a black circular Shanghai handstamp over it. In upper left are two pasted stamps: one blue, and one green, each depicting a man with Chinese characters in the upper corners. Another black circular Shanghai handstamp over them. Beneath is a typewritten message. Below the message is a pencil signature. Return address typed horizontally in middle, with red Nazi eagle stamp over it.

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“Dear Doctor, A few days ago, …


Cross Into Swastika? Jan 1940

Cross Into Swastika?

Rare Books and Manuscripts

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The Fuhrer And His People Jan 1940

The Fuhrer And His People

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Cover: A circle of illustrations of everyday people surround an illustration of Adolf Hitler's face. Interior pages: Propagandistic photographs of and about Adolf Hitler intended for a French audience.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: Vichy France: The Fuhrer and his People. After the fall of France in May, 1940, an armistice is signed at Hitler's insistence in Compiegne in the same railroad car in which the armistice ending WWI had been signed 22 years earlier. Under the terms of the armistice, France is to be divided into two parts: Occupied France under direct German control and Vichy France, a …