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Gestapo Chief Heinrich Muller Signed Ss Arrest Document Oct 1943

Gestapo Chief Heinrich Muller Signed Ss Arrest Document

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

A green document with typed and printed information about Roman Gardala, a Catholic buildling master, signed by a Gestapo officer at the bottom. Gestapo Chief Henrich Müller ordered the Secret State Police to arrest Gardala for the unauthorized possession of fire arms.

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Document signed by a Gestapo officer in pencil. In German, from Secret State Police, Krakow, dated October 23, 1943. Headed “Protective Custody Instruction,” papers for Roman Gardala, a Catholic building master, born June 2, 1895 in Tarnow, Poland. He was held for unauthorized possession of firearms on orders from Heinrich "Gestapo" Müller, …


"Let My People Go" Some Practical Proposals For Dealing With Hitler's Massacre Of The Jews And An Appeal To The British Public, Victor Gollancz Jan 1943

"Let My People Go" Some Practical Proposals For Dealing With Hitler's Massacre Of The Jews And An Appeal To The British Public, Victor Gollancz

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Polish Forced Labor Camp "P" Jan 1943

Polish Forced Labor Camp "P"

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Purple and yellow diamond patch with a 'P' in the center.

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Forced labor badge, yellow with both purple P and border, worn above the right breast, to identify a Polish forced laborer in Nazi Germany to distinguish them from Germans. After the German occupation of Poland in 1939, non-Jewish Poles were conscripted for civilian labor in Germany, usually on farms or factories. They would also have an identifying document such as an Arbeitsbuch or workbook. They were referred to as zivilarbeiter, or civilian workers.


Envelope From Bendsburg Jan 1943

Envelope From Bendsburg

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Front: Green envelope with black writing. Includes purple, blue and red hand stamps, a red and white pasted stamp in bottom left corner, and two pasted stamps on right: one green and one blue, each depicting Hitler in profile.Back: Black cursive writing, and black and blue hand stamps.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: Registered, censored cover from Isaac Israel in Bendsburg to Alfred Schwartzbaum in Lausanne, Switzerland with Czeladz registered label alongside. Bendsburg, German for Bendzin, was in the Katowice District of Poland. A Ghetto was created on July 1, 1941 containing 6,000 Jews who did slave labor for …