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Christmas Postcard From Copenhagen To Aarhus, Denmark

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Front: A tan postcard with black printed postcard lines. Includes a message and address written in black ink, a pasted green stamp and several black hand stamps.Back: An illustration of white flowers, gardenia florida.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: Postcard including a Christmas Seal and King Christian X stamp, mailed Christmas 1943.

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.

Censored Envelope From Denmark To Germany

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Front: A white envelope with writing in blue cursive ink with censor tape on the left side. Includes a red postage stamp as well as two black and two red hand stamps.Back: Includes a return address written in blue ink, several printed letters and censor tape.

Envelope Commemorating 25 Years Of Danish Aviation

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Front: White envelope with a large printed postage stamp and four identical pasted postage stamps. Includes an address typewritten in blue ink, four hand stamps, and a white and red sticker.Back: Black and blue hand stamps.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: Cover is dated during the month that the Danes were able to help spirit the Jews to safety in Sweden.

Envelope With Stamp Commemorating 25 Years Of Danish Aviation

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

A white envelope with a typewritten address, red postage stamp and black hand stamp.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: Cover is dated during the month that the Danes were able to help spirit the Jews to safety in Sweden.

Postcard From Denmark Written On Rosh Hashana

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Front: Tan postcard with black printed postcard lines and writing in pencil. Includes two black hand stamps.Back: Message written in pencil.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: Letter written a day after Jews had been warned about the German intention to begin deportations from Denmark. With Sweden agreeing to grant asylum to the Jews of Denmark, the Danes began the rescue effort to smuggle them out.

Danish King Reported Prisoner In Own Castle

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Front: A black and white photograph of a man in uniform with other soldiers behind him.Back: A pasted sheet of information from International News Photos.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Wire photo verso, International News, of “King Christian of Denmark...arrested and interned in his own castle...This followed a wave of strikes and general sabotage throughout the country. Reports also stated that a part of the Danish Navy had been scuttled...other Danish warships escaped...by fleeing to…Sweden." In just one month from this date, the Danish people would work to move its Jewish citizens out of the country to Sweden, and …

Wehrmacht Censored Envelope From Denmark To Switzerland

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Front: A white envelope with a typewritten address. Includes one purple and three red postage stamps, two black hand stamps, one blue sticker and censor tape, as well as purple and red pencil markings.Back: Includes censor tape as well as one purple and two red hand stamps.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: In approximately two weeks from the date of this letter, Denmark was to ferry most of its Jews to safety in Sweden.