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Envelope From Eschwege Displaced Persons Camp

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Brown envelope with typewritten address to Mrs. Sylvia Levy crossed out in pencil with an additional address written below. Includes typewritten return address on back.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Eschwege was a DP camp in the Frankfort district, Germany, at this time in the American-occupied zone in 1946. There were approximately 3500 Jews at its peak who established a synagogue, theater group and an auditorium, a newspaper, and a sports club. The cover is addressed to a Mrs. Sylvia Levy in Los Angeles and is from Gubieska Rywa at P.C.I.R.O 1025, forerunner of the International Refugee Organization. Eschwege …

Marriage Certificate Of Jewish Couple Married In Dp Camp Bamberg,Germany

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“Heiratsurkunde” across top with rest of form completed by typewriter and handstamp.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Max Lichtenthal and Chaja Waingluck were married in DP Camp Bamberg, Ulanen Kasserne, Lager, Nurnberger Strasse, Bamberg Germany on 12 May 1947. Both had been residing here. Birth certificates were not available, but Max was born in Germany in 1905, Chaja in 1915 in Poland. Signed below by the registrar.

Correspondence From Holocaust Survivor To United Nations

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Envelope front: Green envelope with address written in blue cursive ink. Upper lefthand corner has blue stamp with white letters, and a black circular hand stamp over it.Envelope back: Return address written on flap in blue cursive ink.Letter: Typewritten and copied letter on brown paper. Blanks filled in with blue cursive ink.

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Moving letter and cover from Holocaust survivor, Moses Goldstein, sent to Trygve Lie, Secretary General of the United Nations, asking for help with emigration to Palestine.

Correspondence From Holocaust Survivor To United Nations

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Envelope front: Green envelope with address written in blue cursive ink. Upper lefthand corner has blue stamp with white letters, and a black circular hand stamp.Envelope back: Return address written on flap in blue cursive ink.Letter: Typewritten and copied letter on brown paper. Blanks filled in with blue cursive ink.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Moving letter with cover to Trygve Lie, Secretary General of the United Nations, from Holocaust survivor Chana Feinstejn, asking for help with emigration to Palestine.

Envelope From The Preparatory Commission Of The International Refugee Organization Team 1062

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Tan envelope with typewritten address to "Grenblat Benjamin" in San Francisco. Includes handwritten return address to J. Gurfinkiel on back flap.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: PCIRO Team 1062 sent by Jewish Committee through German PO to San Francisco. Partial strike of AJDC Landsberg/Lech hand stamp.

Jewish Refugees From Ss Exodus 1947

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Front: An image of a group of refugees carrying luggage past huts at the Poppendorf Camp near Luebeck, Germany, as well as typed information about the image below it. Back: Handwritten information about the photo, as well as a stamped date.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

AP wire photo of Jewish refugees arriving in Germany at Poppendorf Camp after being removed from the British SS Ocean Vigour. These refugees had been turned away from British Mandate Palestine on the SS Exodus 1947 as "illegal immigrants" and transported back to Germany on the Ocean Vigour. (AP Wirephoto via radio from …

Four Women Show Their Tattooed Identification Numbers

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Front: Smiling women showing their identification numbers tattooed on their forearms. Back: Wire photo with newspaper clipping attached verso, "Liberated by the United States Ninth army in Kaunitz Germany, these Jewish girls, who were forced to work in a German munitions factory, bare their arms to show where Germans tattooed identification numbers.''

Nuremberg Trials Publication: Concentration Camps

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Book with brown cover, with title, "Konzentrationslager" by Eugène Aroneau. Interior includes text in German and black and white photographs of concentration camps and victims.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Official Nuremberg Trials publication by Eugène Aroneanu entitled Concentration Camps, subtitled Arbeitsgeminschaft “Das Licht" (Germany, CA. 1947). The German text, apparently entered as "Document F321" in the Nuremberg Trials, concerns deportations, all aspects of camp life, forced labor, medical experiments, lists of camps and officers, etc.