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Life Insurance Document For Margot Loewenstein

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Typewritten document in black and blue with a large red Star of David stamp with the word "Jude."

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

A very disturbing set of three typed documents (2012.1.44, 2012.1.45, 2012.1.46) from Berlin. Each is ominously stamped "Jude" in a large red Star of David, concerning the life insurance policy of one Margot Lowenstein of Hamburg, who fled Nazi Germany in August 1939 for England. Under German law, Jews who left the country or were forcibly deported were forced to forfeit any benefits or monies due on existing life insurance policies. The document, loosely translated in …

Life Insurance Document For Margot Loewenstein

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

A typewritten document on red paper with a large red Star of David stamp with the word "Jude."

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

A very disturbing set of three typed documents (2012.1.44, 2012.1.45, 2012.1.46) from Berlin. Each is ominously stamped "Jude" in a large red Star of David, concerning the life insurance policy of one Margot Lowenstein of Hamburg, who fled Nazi Germany in August 1939 for England. Under German law, Jews who left the country or were forcibly deported were forced to forfeit any benefits or monies due on existing life insurance policies. The document, loosely translated in …

Life Insurance Document For Margot Loewenstein

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Front: A tan card stapled onto a larger green card. Tan card includes typewritten information, as well as several stamps, including a large red Star of David with the word "Jude."Back: A printed chart with writing.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

A very disturbing set of three typed documents (2012.1.44, 2012.1.45, 2012.1.46) from Berlin. Each is ominously stamped "Jude" in a large red Star of David, concerning the life insurance policy of one Margot Lowenstein of Hamburg, who fled Nazi Germany in August 1939 for England. Under German law, Jews who left the country or were forcibly deported were …

Postcard From A Jewish Refugee In Germany Trapped In France En Route To England

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Front: Tan postcard with neat blue ink cursive script vertically across the page. Some water damage on the lower left side. Back: Printed red postcard lines. Continuation of message in blue cursive ink on left side. The right side includes the address written in blue and black ink on the printed lines. Printed red stamp of a woman in classical garments holding a torch in the upper righthand corner. Black stamps across the top of the page.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Postcard sent to Dr. Martin Nathan in Tel Aviv, Palestine. Alice describes her situation calmly, with a …

Postcard To Miss Salome Goldstein, London From Regent Palace Hotel, London (German Family Escapes The Holocaust)

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Front: White postcard with German writing in blue cursive ink written horizontally across the page.Back: Includes information printed in black in English, an address written in blue ink, a red stamp, and two black hand stamps.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Group of items pertaining to the timely escape of a Jewish family from persecution in Hitler's Germany. Includes: (2015.2.202) a legalized copy of a letter from Chase National Bank to the American Consul in Vienna, Nov. 19, 1938, stating that the American Louis Cohen wishes to be responsible for the entrance of Salome Goldstein to the U.S., and …

Correspondence To Salome Goldstein, London, England (German Family Escapes The Holocaust)

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Envelope: Off-white envelope with address written in blue cursive ink on the middle. Includes red and green stamps in upper left corner, and two black hand stamps.Letter:Off-white paper with printed title. Includes message written in blue cursive and underlined signature.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Group of items pertaining to the timely escape of a Jewish family from persecution in Hitler's Germany. Includes: (2015.2.202) a legalized copy of a letter from Chase National Bank to the American Consul in Vienna, Nov. 19, 1938, stating that the American Louis Cohen wishes to be responsible for the entrance of Salome Goldstein …

Jewish Refugees Holding Torah

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Front: An image of two men holding a Torah in the Devoncourst Bay refugee camp in England. Back: Typed information about the image.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Associated Press wire photo with following information verso: "Free to pursue their devotions without fear of persecution, these young German Jewish refugees are shown unrolling the scrolls of the law for Jewish religious instruction at the Dovercourt Bay refugee camp in England. Note the shawls and head coverings they are wearing in accordance with ancient custom."

German-Jewish Refugees In England

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Associated Press wire photo verso: "Young Jewish refugee children in camp at Dovercourt Bay, England, pay close attention to the blackboard as they receive a lesson in English. This haven cares for 200 German- Jewish Children." 12-28-38.

Helga Kreiner Of First Kindertransport Arrives In Harwich, England

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Front: An image of a girl in an overcoat clutching a doll. Back: Typewritten information about the image.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Helga Kreiner is pictured having arrived in Harwich, England, a member of the first Kindertransport of refugee children escaping the Nazi menace against Jews in Germany. Clutching her doll to her chest, holding her bag by her side, she stands anxiously awaiting her future in a foreign land without her parents whose own fate she could not know.

Schooled In New Ways

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Front: An image of two boys writing during lessons at a refugee camp in Dovercourt Bay, England. Verso: Typed information describing the image.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

AP wire photo from 1938 verso: "Here is a study of young German Jewish refugees writing during lessons at the refugee camp school which has been set up for them at Dovercourt Bay, England. Many of the children wear caps indoors in accordance with tradition."

Letter From The Kaufthaus Nathan Israel To The Carl Bruns Company, Rathenow

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Front: Tan paper with printed "N.J. Israel" letterhead on upper lefthand corner.Typewritten letter with signature and other ink writing on the bottom right. Back: Printed black lines with pencil handwriting written across the entirety of the page.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: This letter from the Kaufthaus Nathan Israel to the Carl Bruns Company in Rathenow refers to payment not having been received, respectfully requesting that said payment be made. Israel's Department Store was founded by Nathan Israel in 1815. By the 1930s the store employed over 2,000 people and was a member of the stock exchange. It had …

Card Regarding Aryanization Of Jewish-Owned Victor Wolf Company, Dreiturm Seife

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Front: Tan card. with various pasted stamps on top and bottom left, and a red hand stamp on bottom right. Printed lines and blanks, with information written in, and crossed out in black. Back: Red and orange hand stamps on top left.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: Dreiturm (Three Towers) had been a German company owned by Max Wolf, a Jewish businessman. In 1933 Dreiturm was confiscated by the Nazis. At this point Mr. Wolf was counseled by his tax accountant to place the company in aryan hands so that he could enjoy a "peaceful future." In July 1934 …

Letter To Charles Petit Mcilvaine, George Peabody

Charles Pettit McIlvaine Letters

George Peabody is not well either: going to England for health.

Letter To C. P. Mcilvaine, Bishop Of Winchester

Charles Pettit McIlvaine Letters

McIlvaine in England; visit

Letter To Charles Pettit Mcilvaine, William Seward

Charles Pettit McIlvaine Letters

Thank you for copy of prayers proposed for church; Great Britain tires of our war

Letter To S.P. Chase, Charles Pettit Mcilvaine

Charles Pettit McIlvaine Letters

Trip to England

Letter To Chase, S. P. (?), Charles Petit Mcilvaine

Charles Pettit McIlvaine Letters

Trip to England

Letter To Chase, S.P. [?], Charles Pettit Mcilvaine

Charles Pettit McIlvaine Letters

Trip to England

Letter To S.P. Chase, Charles Pettit Mcilvaine

Charles Pettit McIlvaine Letters

Trip to England

Letter From C.P. Mcilvaine To S.P. Chase, Charles Pettit Mcilvaine

Charles Pettit McIlvaine Letters

Trip to England

Letter To S.P. Chase, Charles Petitt Mcilvaine

Charles Pettit McIlvaine Letters

Trip to England

To S. P. Chase, Charles Petit Mcilvaine

Charles Pettit McIlvaine Letters

Trip to England

Letter From C.P. Mcilvaine To S.P. Chase, Charles Pettit Mcilvaine

Charles Pettit McIlvaine Letters

Trip to England

Letter To Chase, S. P. (?), Charles Petit Mcilvaine

Charles Pettit McIlvaine Letters

Trip to England

Letter From C.P. Mcilvaine To S.P. Chase, Charles Pettit Mcilvaine

Charles Pettit McIlvaine Letters

Trip to England.

Letter To Salmon P. Chase, Charles Pettit Mcilvaine

Charles Pettit McIlvaine Letters

Trip to England, meetings with the British Diocese about the war

Letter To Du Bois, Maria (Mamy), Daughter, Charles Petit Mcilvaine

Charles Pettit McIlvaine Letters

Reaction in England to U.S. Civil War; the Trent Affair; Mason & Slidell

Letter To William Seward, Charles Francis Adams

Charles Pettit McIlvaine Letters

State department dispatch mentions McIlvaine

Letter From C.P. Mcilvaine To S.P. Chase, Charles Pettit Mcilvaine

Charles Pettit McIlvaine Letters

Trip to England.

Letter To Mr. Chase From C.P. Mcilvaine, Charles Pettit Mcilvaine

Charles Pettit McIlvaine Letters

English opinion and feeling about capture of Mason & Slidel.