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Theresienstadt Postcard With Berlin Cancellation, Censored With Reply Instruction Cachet

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

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.

Theresienstadt Postcard

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Tan postcard with black postcard lines. Addressed to Marie Stufleo from Prka Katz in pencil. Includes message written in purple pencil.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Postcard from (?) Katz in Theresienstadt, in pencil, To Marie (?) in Prague

Postcard From Sculptor Ottilie Wollmann In Theresienstadt To Felix Hepner At The Pension Beau Sejour In Vevey, Switzerland

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Signed and stamped postcard in black ink dated June 12, 1943.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Ottilie Wollmann was a German sculptor born in Berlin in 1882. She had studied with Fritz Klimsch and Max Kruse and was a member of the Association of Berlin Women Artists. Ottilie worked in an Impressionist idiom. Her sculpture Mother and Child received an award at the Jewish Museum exhibit in 1935. A cast of her bronze Gret Palucca was shown in the 2004 The Eternal Female exhibition at the Gothic House in Berlin. As a Jewish artist, however, she - like the …

Military Orders From Theresienstadt

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Sheets with typewritten German text, titled, "Tagesbefehl Nr. 324."

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: Daily orders distributed through the concentration camp including information about new transports that arrived with new prisoners, electricity savings, camp behavior regulations, turning off the light, rising time; signed by Der Aeltestenrat.

Gestapo Seizure Of Jewish Property In Austria Document Signed By Dr. Karl Ebner

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Signed and stamped document from the “Geheime Staatspolizei” with the serial code “0-5-4210 Q0547” in the bottom left corner.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Document from Gestapo main office in Vienna, May 5, 1943 sent by Dr. Karl Ebner who was head of the Gestapo in Vienna, to a Willy Dwroak, also in Vienna, regarding the seizure of the goods of a Jew named Theodor Israel Ehrenstein. The document states that according to the law of 18 November 1938, Mr. Ehrenstein’s estate has been confiscated or retained by the government. Ebner also reports that “Vugesta,” the Gestapo office for …

Theresienstadt Package Receipt

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Tan slip titled "Einlieferungsschein - Podaci listek" (deposit slip in German and Czech). Made out to Erich Gottlieb. Includes a printed table and a stamp.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Slip acknowledging receipt of a package in Theresienstadt

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Theresienstadt Postcard

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Tan postcard with black printed postcard lines. Addressed in black ink to Adele Tuinlar from Israel Breda. Includes message in black ink.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: Translation: "My dear children -- I hope that all of you are well. I can report the same of us. Our dear mother is also feeling better. We were very happy to receive your greetings. Do not forget the Juha. Take care of your health. The fondest greetings to all and kisses. Your ever loving Father, Breda Israel."

Theresienstadt Ghetto Stamp

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Green stamp on serated paper. Titled, "Theresienstadt" with green illustration of trees and hills.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: Theresienstadt Concentration Camp stamp prepared on order of the Nazis to be distributed to the Red Cross officials inspecting the ghetto. It was done to convince the inspectors that life in the ghetto was not too bad.

German-Occupied Bohemia-Moravia Postcard, Words Numbered, From Nelli Mueller Of Hagibor Forced Labor Camp To Mother-In-Law In Zebrak

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Postcard marked "POSTKARTE DOPISNICE" with a purple postage stamp of Hitler in the top right corner and a border of purple leaves,"Antwort pur anf Postkarten in deutscher Sprache" stamped on left side in black ink.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Nelli Mueller was a Jew who married a Czech ethnic German, Bohomil Mueller. For “violation” of the Nuremberg racial laws, she would be interned in Hagibor, a “mixed race” slave labor camp (Sonderlager) for spouses of mixed marriages. She was subsequently deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1945, a few months before that camp was liberated. Her husband had …