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Advertisement From Topf & Sons

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Front: Blue printed German text with Topf logo in top left; Back: More printed text with Topf logo at bottom.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Topf & Sons designed, built and perfected the crematoria at the Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Belzec, Dachau, Mauthausen and Gusen camps. The leaflet lists their slogan (“Performance decides”) and various product lines: smokestacks, furnaces, etc. Verso is a company description. Topf speaks glowingly about their new leadership and spirit since 1933, the Third Reich’s first year.

Message From Female Prisoner On Fkl Auschwitz Stationery

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Front: ‘F.K.L. Auschwitz’ printed in bold at top left; Back: handwritten message in pencil.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: Frauen Konzentrationslager (FKL) Auschwitz/ Women’s Concentration Camp Auschwitz prisoner mail on camp stationery card. FKL Auschwitz was established as a subcamp of Frauen-Konzentrationslager Ravensbrueck housed at Auschwitz before becoming integrated with the Auschwitz camp proper at Birkenau (Auschwitz II). Stamp has been removed (censors did this to check for hidden messages) and another, uncanceled Mohemia Moravia applied. FKL imprinted covers are extremely scarce.

Real-Photo Postcards Of Children Of Izieu From Maison D'Izieu

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

a:Front: image of children with 'Colonie d'Izieu - ete 1943' at bottom right; back: 'IZ V07' at top left with names of children and faint image from front.b:Front: image of children with 'Colonie d'Izieu, fete a la fontaine - ete 1943' at bottom right; back:'IZ VO5' with names of children and faint image from front.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: Izieu, a village in Central France, was the site of a Jewish orphanage. The 44 children housed there during the war were between the ages of five and seventeen. On April 6, 1944, Klaus Barbie's Gestapo thugs forcibly removed …

Censored Letter From Drancy Internment Camp

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Envelope with title, "Kriegsgafanyenpost" with address and message written in pencil.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Frontstalag (Frontstammlager) 111 Drancy censored lettersheet sent by Jewish POW Solomon Narinsky to his wife Sonia, in Frontstalag 142, Besancon. Initially a POW camp holding North African colonial POWs, Frontstalag 111 also held 79 British prisoners and foreign laborers who were in France. Solomon Narinsky was a renowned photographer who had at this time a photography studio in Paris. His wife Sonia was also a photographer swept up in the dragnet after the German invasion of France in May 1940. Frontstalag 142 was …

Hungarian Propaganda Poster For The Arrow Cross Party

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Poster in Hungarian titled, "Honvédek!"

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: Banner exhorting people to vote for Ferenc Szalasi, the leader of the Arrow Cross (Nylas in Hungarian). The Arrow Cross was the Hungarian fascist party and movement established by Ferenc Szalasi. Like the Nazis, they were strongly nationalistic and militantly opposed to Communism and Jews. Also like the Nazis, they were advocates of agriculture. Szalasi led the Hungarian government after Miklos Horthy was dismissed by the Nazis. The so-called "Government of National Unity" terrorized Hungarian Jews and murdered approximately 10,000 to 15,000 people and deported 80,000 to Auschwitz in …

Polish Prisoner At Auschwitz

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Front: A triptych of photographs. The leftmost one is a profile of the prisoner with the text 'Pole 20627 K.L.Auschwitz' on it. There is a medal rod at the back of the man's head. He is shaved and in a prisoner's uniform. The middle is of the prisoner facing towards the camera. The right one is the prisoner facing slightly to the left with a cap on. Back: Purple stamp that says 'Panstwowe Muzeum W Oswiec... Pracownia Fotograficzna'.