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Postcard To Professor M. Lowy, A Jew In Modena
Postcard To Professor M. Lowy, A Jew In Modena
Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection
Postcard with text printed in green and stamped with purple ink. Address and additional text handwritten in black ink. Message handwritten in black ink on opposite side.
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Italian Fascist censored (two-line handstamp and circular R-Questura Modena stamp recto and boxed 2 verso) propaganda postcard, with King Victor Emmanuelle Stamp and “Vinceremo” (“we will win”) imprinted on the postcard, sent to a Professor Maurizio Lowy in Finale-Emilia in the province of Modena. This card was sent in the final phase of Italy’s wholehearted support of the Nazis. Mr. Lowy perhaps served as a conduit for …
Envelope From Ferramonti Di Tarsia Concentration Camp To Red Cross In Switzerland
Envelope From Ferramonti Di Tarsia Concentration Camp To Red Cross In Switzerland
Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection
Front: A blue envelope with writing in black ink, five green postage stamps and a purple hand stamp.Back: Includes writing in black ink, a strip of white censor tape and several black and purple hand stamps.
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Includes a camp handstamp, an Italian censor and undated postmarks. Sent by a Czech Jew, Ladislav Rosinger. The largest of the internment camps established by Mussolini between June and September 1940. Ferramonti in southern Italy held more than 3,800 Jews as well as political prisoners. The majority of prisoners were foreign-born. Prisoners were able to establish a library, …