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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 V06'

b:Front: image of children with 'Colonie d'Izieu, devant la fontaine - ete 1943' at bottom right; back: 'IZ V08'

c: Front: image of children with 'Colonie d'Izieu, sur la terrasse - ete 1943' at bottom right; back: 'IZ V09'

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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 …

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 …

Gestapo Report On Confiscation Of Counterfeit Money From Adolf Abraham

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Half sheet with German text printed and handwritten. Titled, "Einlieferungsanzeige Beschlangnahmeanzeige."

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: A confiscation report by the Gestapo. They confiscated ninety-one faked money bills from a Jew, Adolf Abraham. The document is stamped by SS and Litzmannstadt Ghetto administration. Mr. Abraham died at Litzmannstadt on May 11, 1942.

George F. Duckwitz

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Black and white photograph of a dower-looking man in glasses, with his dark hair slicked back, wearing a three-piece suit and tie. The tie has a pearl pin in it, and is askew. Back: Pasted sticker naming Duckwitz a West German personality. Beneath a black handstamp giving copyright to Camera Press.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Press photograph of George F. Duckwitz (1904-1973). Duckwitz had been a German businessman who joined the Nazi Party in 1932. He was eventually assigned to the German embassy in Copenhagen, Denmark, as an attaché. After 1942 Duckwitz worked with Werner Best, the Gestapo …

Sheet Music Signed By Composer Leon Jessel

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Front: Tan paper with three printed music staffs, and handwritten music notes/writing beneath each staff. Title and other information on top. Back: Tan paper with three printed music staffs. The top two staffs include notes and writing beneath those notes, but the third staff is blank. Beneath the third staff is Jessel's seignature, and a purple hand stamp with his name.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Leon Jessel was a Jewish composer who composed numerous operettas, classical music pieces, as well as popular music, including Schwarzwaldmadel, Parade of the Tin Soldiers, etc. Despite converting to Christianity, his music was …

Irena Sendler Commemorative Card, Poland

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Printed postcard titled, "Kto ratuje jedno życie, to jakby ratował cały świat" with black and white picture of a young woman.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Irena Sendler (Sendlerova), also known as Jolanta, was a Polish Roman Catholic nurse/social worker who worked in the Polish Underground during World War II. She was the head of the children's section of Zegota in German-occupied Warsaw. She was able, with the help of other members of Zegota, to save the lives of 2,500 children by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto, as well as securing false identity papers and housing for …

Envelope From Dusseldorf, Germany To Gestapo Offices In Frankfort

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Green envelope with typewritten address, a purple ink stamp in bottom left and a red stamp in top right.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: Envelope from NSDAP office in Dusseldorf to Gestapo headquarters in Frankfort.

Parcel Slip From Theresienstadt Concentration Camp/Ghetto To Kleine Festung

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Front: Tan slip with printed text and red, black and blue hand stamps.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Theresienstadt Concentration Camp/Ghetto parcel to Kleine Festung from the small fortress Gestapo Prison, Terezin, 1944.

Gestapo Chief Heinrich Muller Signed Ss Arrest Document

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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.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

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, …

Gestapo Files Of Insurance Rebates Of Deceased Jews

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Brown form with typewritten message. Upper left has return address handstamped and damage from paperclip. Top right has date, and purple rectangular handstamp with date Signature in bottom right, with purple handstamp. Several red pencil markings.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

A chilling set of three documents (2012.1.558, 2012.1.559, 2012.1.560) regarding the Nazi appropriation of insurance rebates or refunds from policies once owned by deceased Jews who perished within concentration camps. The first, 2pp. legal folio, Munich, Apr. 29, 1943, lists nine deceased Jews who were "deregistered," "expelled," "deceased" or otherwise no longer insured. The other two documents, 1p. …

Gestapo Files Of Insurance Rebates Of Deceased Jews

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Green paper with typewritten message. Red '6' written into the date on right side. Signature in bottom right.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

A chilling set of three documents (2012.1.558, 2012.1.559, 2012.1.560) regarding the Nazi appropriation of insurance rebates or refunds from policies once owned by deceased Jews who perished within concentration camps. The first, 2pp. legal folio, Munich, Apr. 29, 1943, lists nine deceased Jews who were "deregistered," "expelled," "deceased" or otherwise no longer insured. The other two documents, 1p. 8vo. each, dated Munich, June 2 and 18, 1943, are regarding the list. Of course, Nazi decrees provided …

Gestapo Files Of Insurance Rebates Of Deceased Jews

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Front: Top right has typewritten date and purple rectangular handstamp with date. Top left has stamped return address. Typewritten form with pencil markings for numbers, and red checks and texts. Includes lists of names, with addresses. Back: Black typewritten message in German. Second to last paragraph outlined with red. Signature in middle with purple hand stamp over it.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

A chilling set of three documents (2012.1.558, 2012.1.559, 2012.1.560) regarding the Nazi appropriation of insurance rebates or refunds from policies once owned by deceased Jews who perished within concentration camps. The first, 2pp. legal folio, Munich, …

Announcement Of Lvov (Lemberg) Ghetto

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Tan broadside titled, "Aufruf." Includes text in German.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Dr. Abraham Rothfeld, who wrote and signed this announcement, was the head of the Judenrat, or Jewish council, taking the place of Dr. Joseph Parnes whom the Nazis killed because of his refusal to submit Jews for slave labor at the Janowska labor camp. Lvov had the third largest Jewish population in Poland on the eve of World War II. It had been absorbed into the General Government after the Non-Aggression Treaty between the USSR and Germany was signed.

A ghetto was established for Jews in …

Envelope From Gestapo Office

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

A tan envelope with typewritten address and illegible postmark.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: Envelope from Gestapo Office to a Frau Helene Morkes.

Letter From Gestapo Prison In Gorlitz

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Page: typed memo with typewritten information attached to letter. Letter Front: black printed text and postcard lines with typewritten and handwritten messages. Letter Back: continuation of handwritten message.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Allied officers connected with the famed "Great Escape" were interned here before 50 of them were murdered.

Postcard From Gestapo Addressed To Freda Oberegger

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Postcard addressed to “Freda Oberegger” on front. Back includes “Geheime Staatspolizei” in black print in upper left side.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Postcard from Berlin Gestapo, Geheime Staatspolizei, with purple Geheime Staatspolizei Berlin special cachet, cancelled in Berlin 3/28/39, addressed to one Freda Oberegger of Huttenberg, Karnten, Austria, concerning someone (“file number” 0.422) held in detention - in all probability a family member. The Gestapo acknowledge receipt of her communication, but report that further “investigation” is necessary, and that Ms. Oberegger would receive a decision later, perhaps before the month expires.

Complaint Letter Against A Jew Results In Arrest And Placement In Detention Camp By Gestapo

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Typewritten letter, right corner missing, 'W e n d l' underlined in red pencil, signed by (Dr. Publig)

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Mr. I.A. Knissel, a Viennese bureaucrat and head of the Administration and Organization Office, does a favor for a man lodging a complaint against a Jew. Mr. Knissel reports that due to his intervention, the Jew Israel Beisatti has been arrested and placed by the Gestapo in detention camp. A Dr. Publig signs the document as well.

Identification Document

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Criminal record document from Berlin Ministry of Justice with Gestapo and Jewish hand stamps in red from June, 1934.