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From The Horse's Mouth By Gordon Dwight "Jack" Mohr

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Pamphlet titled “FROM THE HORSE’S MOUTH” in center in blue print, includes image in blue square of the Star of David and Hammer and Sickle stating “COMMUNISM IS JEWISH.”

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Mohr had been an antisemitic military officer who served in both WWII and the Korean War. According to Metapedia, he had been a member of the John Birch Society and the Christian Patriots Defense League, which he had founded with John Harrell. A believer in the veracity of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, he felt that Jews were the enemies of Christ …

Spanish Civil War Cover To France With Censor And Cachet

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Envelope addressed to “Excmo. Sr. Marques di Targiani” printed in purple, includes red postage stamp and blue postage stamp of Isabel La Católica in upper right corner, “SALTOS DEL DUERA, S.A.” in bottom left corner.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:Nationalist Cover with por-Franco caches and censor markings.

Anti-Nationalist Postcard Of Spanish Civil War: Republican Junta De Burgos Ship

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Postcard featuring a political cartoon with figures representing the Nazi party, the Catholic Church, Moroccans on board a ship.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

The Spanish Civil War lasted from July 1936 to April 1939. The image on this postcard caricatures the groups held responsible for the Nationalist insurrection against the elected Republican government, placing Generalissimo Francisco Franco and his Falangist party in power. These partners include the Church, the pro-fascist aristocracy, the military and Moroccans of the Army of Africa. All appear aboard a boat named “Junta de Burgos,” registered in Lisbon, referencing the Nationalist headquarters and the …

Propaganda From Vichy, France

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305: Document titled “Paroles Françaises Paroles d’Espoir” with two images of men on the left side, blue and red border.

306: Document titled “MESSAGE DU MARÉCHAL PÉTAIN” in bold, blue print with image of Pétain in center.

307: Document titled “COLLABORATION”, with three frames of illustrations, final panel includes large question mark.

308: Document includes “Que deviant la FRANCE dans toute cette histoire?” underlined in top left corner, “MAURICE DELAUNAY” underlined at bottom of page.

309: Document titled “RESTE EN FRANCE!” at top of page, includes central image of ruins and three round images on right side.

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

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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'

[Related items: 2016.1.07ab]

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 …

3rd Reich Dutch Nazi Party Nsb Postcard

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Black and red postcard with large, white bird on front, “WAT WILT GU VRIJHEID OF KNECHTSCHAP” printed in top left corner.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:The message is “What do you want, freedom or servitude – Freedom only through the NSB.” Verso the exhortation to work together, and that through cooperating with the N.S.B. the Dutch will be free in a new Europe.

Dutch Nsb Propaganda "Viktoria": Germany Wins For Europe On All Fronts

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Document includes large red “V” in center with a banner marked “VIKTORIA” going through it.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: A Dutch National Socialist party (Nationaal Socialistische Beweging) – ‘V’ Propaganda leaflet.

National Socialistische Beweging In Nederland (N.S.B.)

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Booklet marked “DE N.S.B. EN ONS CHRISTELIJK VOLKSKARAKTER” across top, image of man holding one arm up, 15 pages.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: Anton Mussert’s name appears on this N.S.B. pamphlet cover and is possibly its author. He was a leader of the National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands. Found guilty of treason at the end of WWII, he was executed in 1946.

Dutch Fascist Party Nsb (Nationaal Socialistische Beweging) Identification Card

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Pink tri-folded paper. Recto has a black and white image of a young man on the left panel and 12 green membership stamps on the right panel that read “NSB” with dates on each. Verso has 8 “NSB” stamps on the left hand panel.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

NSB membership card (Lidmaatschapskaart) issued to C. Steenstraten who registered in the Hague on November 10, 1941, membership no. 98701. Membership stamps indicate that he paid membership fees through August 1944. Verso right panel: “Faith in God, love for people and fatherland, respect for labor”. Verso center panel: “For the …

Antisemitic Handbill Distributed In Netherlands Depicting Caricatures Of Allied Leaders Roosevelt, Churchill, And Stalin

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Illustration of four men with printing in bold black and red type at bottom, K 288 at bottom right, ‘VIKTORIA’ at top right, thick black border at all edges

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:The image of the three Allied leaders and the caricature of the Jew is captioned in Dutch: “Yankee-Englishman-Bolsjewiek” dance to the tune of the Jewish clique’s piper. This handbill was distributed around the Netherlands during the German occupation.

Verborgen Verzet [Hidden Resistance], An Anti-Nazi Propaganda Booklet Distributed In Netherlands

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Booklet with green cover, 6 pages, cover includes image of Nazi soldier stabbed with a dagger, “VERBORGEN VERZET” in bold print at top with large “V” in white print. Back includes large, green “V.”

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Printed in England during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, the cover shows an image of a Nazi soldier stabbed to death with a dagger in his back. The booklet depicts resistance activities in nations overrun by the Germans: Norway, Poland, France, and other occupied countries, along with a photographic record of victims of Nazi brutality being executed. The last …

Group Of Jewish Brigade Letters From Corporal A. Sucherman Of The 3rd Battalion, Palestine Regiment, To P. Halperin In Tel Aviv

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Unbound collection of blue-grey paper with a purple postal stamp in the top right corner of each and a purple crest, British censor, ink stamp. All letters are addressed to “Miss. Halperin P.” Letters are marked with letters "a" through "s" on back in lower right corner. Blank pages are omitted from scans.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

After Churchill agreed to allow the formation of an all-Jewish fighting force to do battle with the Nazis, a Jewish Brigade Group was formed and allowed to fight under a Zionist flag. More than 5,000 Jewish volunteers from the Yishuv in …

Majdanek Za Drutami Zaglady By Piotr Sobolewski And Theresa Zagorowska

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Small book titled “MAJDANEK” in center under image, 36 pages.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: Early monograph on Majdanek, the Nazi extermination camp established on the outskirts of Lublin during the Nazi occupation of Poland in World War II. Majdanek was also known as Konzentrationslager Lublin and operated from October 1941 until July 1944. Industrial-scale murder of prisoners occurred during “Operation Reinhard,” the Nazi plan to murder all Jews within the General Government territory of Poland.

Reproduction Photograph With Original Signature Of Benjamin Ferencz

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Black and white photograph of three men looking through papers, man in center pictured sitting, men on either side wearing headphones, “Ben Ferencz” signed in black near bottom.[Related item: 2019.2.237]

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: Hungarian by birth, Ferencz’s family emigrated to the United States to escape persecution by the Romanians. After Harvard Law School, the scarcely five-foot-tall Ferencz served in the anti-aircraft unit in World War II. Transferred to Patton’s Third Army, Ferencz became part of a team collecting evidence relating to Nazi war crime trials, and was appointed at age 27 to Chief Prosecutor in the Einsatzgruppen …

Reproduction Photograph With Original Signature Of Benjamin Ferencz

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Black and white photograph of man in uniform, “Ben Ferencz” signed in black near bottom. [Related item: 2019.2.238]

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: Hungarian by birth, Ferencz’s family emigrated to the United States to escape persecution by the Romanians. After Harvard Law School, the scarcely five-foot-tall Ferencz served in the anti-aircraft unit in World War II. Transferred to Patton’s Third Army, Ferencz became part of a team collecting evidence relating to Nazi war crime trials, and was appointed at age 27 to Chief Prosecutor in the Einsatzgruppen trials, wherein all 22 defendants were eventually convicted. He had an important …

French Antisemitic Cartoon Leaflet

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Front includes three anti-Semitic illustrations with caption in black ink near each, “QUI” in bold in upper left corner. Front includes two anti-Semitic illustrations with caption in black ink near each, “Francais!” and “Vous” in bold, signed in lower left corner.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

WWII French leaflet with insulting cartoons of Jews, blaming them for black market profiteering while others have to endure long lines and unavailability of food. It ends with the exhortation to avoid Jews and their schemes.

Hans Schweitzer, "Mjolnir" Antisemitic Broadside

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Broadside with four squares of illustrations, titles “Grippe” in upper right corner.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: Schweitzer, used the pen name “Mjolnir,” or Thor’s hammer. He was recruited by Joseph Goebbels to produce Nazi propaganda caricaturing Jews and other Nazi opponents. He was also a member of the S.S. He became the “Reich Commissioner for Artistic Design.”

The captions read:

“The Jews Hilferding, master of inflation. The world Jew does not want the German Mark.”

“Hunger.”

“We build homes in France. But Germans must live like this.”

“On February 11, 1922 the French have occupied the Ruhr because …

Partial Envelopes Showing The Aryanization Of Kaufhaus Des Westens/Hertie Company: A Postal History

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Partial envelopes

a: Small part of white envelope with light blue crosshatched lines, “Kaufhaus des Westens” in black print above small square image of ship.

b: Plain white partial envelope, “Deutsches Reich *003” stamped in red ink in top right corner, addressed to “J.H. Frau K. Köhler.”

c: Part of white envelope with light blue crosshatched lines, “Deutsches Reich *012” stamped in red ink in top right corner, “Firma” printed in blue at bottom.

d: White partial envelope with light blue crosshatched lines, “Deutsches Reich *008” stamped in red ink in top right corner, addressed to “Frau Krüger” written in …

Photograph Of "Gypsies"

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Black and white photograph of bearded man in hat. [Related item: 2019.2.203]

Photograph Of "Gypsies"

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Black and white photograph of women and children with ridged edges. [Related item: 2019.2.204]

Anti-German Propaganda

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

29 documents (fliers, leaflets and a booklet) in various sizes

.151: Flier - Anweisung sur Lebensrettung

.152: Flier - HILF DIR SELBST

.153: Flier - Safe-Conduct

.154: Flier - Bedingungslose Ubergabe

.155: Flier – Ein Wort zum Thema Etappe

.156: Flier – FRONTSOLDAT: Frage die Heimat

.157: Flier – BEKANNTMACHUNG

.158: Booklet – De Wervelwind, No. 5, August 1942

.159: Flier – Material-Schlacht!

.160: Flier – Das Recht des Soldaten

.161: Flier – DIE ZEIT DES ZOGERNS IST VORBEI!

.162: Flier – SOLDATENPFLICHT

.163: Flier – WOFUR KAMPFEN DIE VEREINTEN NATIONEN?

.164: Flier – Made to look like a handwritten …

American Propaganda Dropped On Germany

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12 documents in various sizes

.136: Flier – Volkssturm

.137: Flier – Deutsche Offiziere!

.138: Flier – Was bedeutet bedingungslose “übergabe”?

.139: Flier – KURZ UND BÜNDIG

.140: Flier – Rückzug oder Zusammenbruch?

.141: Flier – Die Toten kehren nicht zuruck

.142: Flier – Das sechste Kriegsweihnachten

.143: Flier – DIE LAGE…

.144: Flier – DIE ALLIIERTEN SIND IN DEUTSCHLAND!

.145: Flier – DIE RUSSEN SIND IN SCHLESIEN

.146: Flier – GEFALLEN am letzten Tag des zweiten Weltkriegs

.147: Flier – ZEHN GEBOTE FUR ÖSTERREICHER

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:Twelve pieces of American-issued propaganda aimed at German soldiers, …

Mauritius Jewish Internment Camp Cover From Adolph Meir Felmann To New York Physician

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Blue Mauritius postage stamp in upper right corner, “Written in English” in black print in upper left corner, underlined with dashes, “PASSED BY CENSOR MAURITIUS” in triangle shaped stamp in purple ink. Back labelled “OPENED BY CENSOR” in large red print, and includes “Exp.: Adolf Meir Feldmenn” in black print near top.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Britain’s refusal to permit desperate Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi-occupied Europe to emigrate to Palestine meant establishing internment camps within the Empire. In December 1940 they opened up an internment camp in a dismal Napoleonic era prison on the island of Mauritius, in …

Ukraine Nazi Occupation 1942-1945 Banknote 50 Karbovanets

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Green banknote marked with "50 Fünfzig" red number "40-006583" in bottom right on front.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: These notes were in circulation for three years during the Nazi occupation of the Ukraine. The Reichskommissariat Ukraine issued notes in Karbovanets, pegged to the German Reichsmark, thus replacing the Russian ruble. This note would have been equivalent to 5 Reichsmarks. It depicts a miner.

Litzmannstadt Ghetto Ration Card For Bread "Brot-Karte"

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Blue sheet with German on the right side with "Der Aelteste Der Juden" on the top, printed in black. In purple, stamped on the right is "Gestorben" (Deceased). On the left side of the page are numbers ascending 1 though 60, from left to right and bottom to top, with squares 1 and 2 cut out at the top left corner of the page.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:Chaim Rumkowski printed signature and Judenrat (Der Aelteste der Juden) stamp at bottom.

Litzmannstadt Ghetto Metal Department Pass

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First line is handwritten "Cukier Mondka" in green followed by black Hebrew print. Handwritten green "66:" in top right corner. Purple stamp in center of the page read “Der Aelteste der Juden in Litzmannstadt Arbeits-Ressort Metall-Abteilung HOHENSTEINERSTR N 56.”

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

This small pass, issued to Mondka Cukier, with text written in Hebrew, is stamped by the Judenrat in the ghetto.

World War I "Militarpass" Of Leo Jacobsohn

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Cover: Blue-purple with eagle stamp and "Militarpak" printed in the center. "Leo Jacobsohn" is handwritten on lines in the center of the page. Top right corner handwritten in black is "1888" with "66" in red underneath it. Pages 15-20 are blank.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Leo Jacobsohn’s World War I Militarpass.

Documents [2019.2.60-68] of a German family living through the Holocaust and its aftermath. Leo Jacobsohn, a Jewish citizen of Hamburg, Germany, was married to Frida Mehrens, who was Lutheran. The document collection of this mixed marriage provides a window into their trials and tragedies throughout the time …

American Isolationist Sentiment Wwii: Pre-War Propaganda Stamps Advocating Non-Involvement In Europe

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26 stamps of various sizes:

2019.2.33: “America First” in shape of shield

34: DEMOCRACY BEGINS AT HOME

35: MEMORIAL DAY 1941

36: 1ST BIRTHDAY

37: Benjamin Franklin quote

38: Abraham Lincoln in profile

39: HELP!

40: WAR? What For?

41: Birthright

42: DEMOCRACY BEGINS AT HOME (duplicate of .34)

43: Franklin D. Roosevelt quote

44: NO FOREIGN ENTANGLEMENTS

45: cartoon with two men

46: AMERICA FIRST COMMITTEE

47: AMERICA FIRST COMMITTEE (duplicate of .46)

48: NATIONAL UNITY?

49: NATIONAL UNITY? (duplicate of .48)

50: Thomas Jefferson quote

51: “Isn’t it great to be an American”

52: Make America Strong

53: …

Antisemitic Label

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Red, stamp-sized label, includes "Kauft nicht" twice in white text and underlined.

[Related items: 2019.2.12 and 2019.2.13]

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: Label included with Der Sturmer correspondence stating: “Don’t buy from warehouses. Don’t buy from Jews.”

Scheuer's Doppel-Ritter

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Yellow stamp with ridged edges showing image of an old woman and young girl.

[Related item: 2019.2.6]

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: Scheuer's stamp from chicory coffee factory in Nuremberg- Fuerth founded by Georg Joseph Ignatz Scheuer.