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Swiss Airmail To Tel Aviv
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Blue envelope addressed to Hanna Kornfeld. Includes white censor tape and return address on back flap.
Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: Swiss airmail to Tel Aviv with censor marking.
French Concentration Camp De Noe, Postcard Sent To Sweden With Chemical Censor Mark
French Concentration Camp De Noe, Postcard Sent To Sweden With Chemical Censor Mark
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Front: handwritten message fills entire page, blue censor mark runs diagonally; Back: handwriting continues, ‘CARTE POSTALE’ printed in red with several handstamps and blue diagonal censor mark.
Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: De Noe was originally intended to receive Spanish refugees fleeing Franco’s Fascist regime. By 1941 it was a hospital camp, but as well housed over 700 Jews. In August and September of 1942, 530 Jews formed parts of four convoys representing 4,000 Jews which left Drancy for Auschwitz. By the end of 1943 the elderly and incurable were evacuated to various hospitals. Postcard pre-printed with stamp of …
Theresienstadt Postcard With Berlin Cancellation, Censored With Reply Instruction Cachet
Theresienstadt Postcard With Berlin Cancellation, Censored With Reply Instruction Cachet
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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.
Letter From Dachau Prisoner
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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 …