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Arbeitsbuch Signed By Eugen Gildemeister

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Cover: 'Deutches Reich'above and 'Arbeitsbuch' below an eagle. Interior: 32 pages; 1-9 include many hand stamps and handwriting. Pages 10-32 are blank.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Work booklet for a laboratory assistant, Albert Kuschel, who worked in the Robert Koch Institute of Infectious Diseases in Berlin. Eugen Gildemeister was a German bacteriologist who, subsequent to the Nazi rise to power, became Director and Vice-President of this Institute. Gildemeister was involved with pseudo-medical experiments on inmates of Buchenwald, Natzweiler, Sachsenhausen and Dachau. On March 3, 1942, he was present as 145 inmates of KL Buchenwald were purposely infected with …

Clara Wallock Interview Transcript, Clara Wallock

Interviews

Clara Wallock discusses her life and growing up in Mt. Vernon

Telegram From Auschwitz

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Telegram: 'Deutsche Post Osten' printed at top center. Envelope: 'Telegramm' printed above gold rectangle with black outline. Back: 'Inliegend Telegramm!' at top center.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: Telegram from commandant reporting death of inmate.

Interview With Charlie Steinman, Charlie Steinman, Todd Juengling

Interviews

A transcript of a fiddle lesson with Charlie Steinman

Interview With Tom Smith, Tom Smith, Todd Juengling

Interviews

The interview discusses other local musicians and the personal musical history of Tom Smith, a Knox County musician.

Interview With Sarah Goslee Reed, Sarah Goslee Reed, Todd Juengling

Interviews

The interview addresses song writing and traditional vs non-traditional music with Sarah Goslee Reed, a musician and folk song writer

Kenyon Collegian - February 11, 2016

The Kenyon Collegian

No abstract provided.

“Stairs Of Death” In The Mauthausen Quarry

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Front: Black and white photograph of a quarry with house in upper left side and small groupings of people throughout. Back: No handwriting or postage stamp. Printed message in French and German the upper lefthand corner, with a place for a stamp in the upper lefthand corner.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Real-photo postcard showing the infamous "stairs of death" at Mauthausen. Many of the inmates at Mauthausen were worked to death in the granite quarry while receiving only starvation rations. Prisoners were divided into two groups: one that hacked the granite and the other that carried the 100-pound …

Early Postcard Sent From Buchenwald Concentration Camp

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Front: Split in half by orange line. Right side has orange dotted lines with the addressee written on them. The upper righthand corner seems to have had the stamp ripped off. There is "-26-" in its place, as well as the bottom outline of a circle stamp. Address is written in black pen. The left side of the postcard has a block of German text in orange print, titled: "Konzentrationslager Weirmar=Buchenwald" with the name of the inmate written along with his room and block in the bottom in black ink. Back: Message is written on dotted orange lines in black …

J.A. Topf & Sohne Erfurt Brochure

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Front: White brochure with black text and green accents. Large picture of the malt-drying machines done in black take up most of the cover. Green accents at the top and bottom 'J.A. Topf & Söhne' stamped in red at the top. 'J.A. Topf & Söhne Erfurt' in large black letters on the top.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Brochure from the 1940s of malt-drying machine manufactured by the engineering firm that gave us the crematoria - the incineration furnaces - at concentration camps such as Auschwitz.

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'.

Postcard Of Nazi Concentration Camp Chart Of Prisoner Markings

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Front: Reproduction of chart of concentration camp prisoner markings, describing the different colors, symbols and placement. Shapes are mostly triangles, with some circles, as well as Stars of David, colors include red, green, blue, purple, pink and black. The bottom righthand corner shows a prison uniform with the markings in their correct placement. Back: Blank postcard with purple text. A printed on purple stamp of Hitler's profile facing right in the top right corner next to the word 'Postkarte.'

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

The victims of the concentration camps were not just Jews. Political prisoners (Communists, Social Democrats, …

Polizei Soldbuch

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Cover: Green cover with eagle and Swastika in a reef. Title 'Soldbuch zugleich Perfonalausweis.' within black border. Green binding on left side. Interior: 36 pages with numerous stamps and handwriting throughout.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Soldbuch for member of regiment South Police Battalion 314, one Leo Markert, a Revierober Wachtmeister of the Schutzpolizei with awards including the anti-partisan badge in silver and close combat clasp in silver containing an attached foldout detailing engagements by date and place. Anti-partisan is a euphemism for Jews. Picture removed, probably to conceal identity. Entries as well for postwar internment in a British …

Uncut Ration Coupons Commemorating The Lincoln Brigades, Spanish Civil War

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Front: Serated poster with printed title in black and illustration of three men in unform carrying weapons.Back: Small ration coupons with decorative borders for various foods.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: The Lincoln Brigade was comprised of volunteers from North America who wanted to fight against fascism and was organized in 1937 as a part of the International Brigade. The Brigade was in action in a number of important battles of the Spanish Civil War, including the battle of Jarama.

Correspondence From Ernest Kohn/Adolf Slunjski In Zagreb, Croatia

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Envelope: A white envelope with green writing. In the upper left corner is a printed return address, crossed out with black ink with a different return address stamped on in purple. Includes two green postage stamps and a black hand stamp.Letter: Typewritten letter on white paper, including two purple hand stamps, and some writing in black ink, including a signature.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

A letter from Zagreb from a formerly Jewish-owned company named "Ernest Kohn" with its name crossed out and replaced with the new owner, Adolf Slunjski. Ernest Kohn of Zagreb was murdered during the Holocaust …

Kenyon Collegian - February 4, 2016

The Kenyon Collegian

No abstract provided.

Kenyon Collegiate - February 2, 2016

Kenyon Collegiate

No abstract provided.

Kenyon Collegian - January 28, 2016

The Kenyon Collegian

No abstract provided.

Censored Envelope From Germany To Undercover Address In New York

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Front: A white envelope with writing in blocky black ink. Includes a blue postage stamp, a black hand stamp, and censor tape.Back: Includes censor tape in both German and English.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

This was the undercover address (generally assumed to have been run by Thomas Cook and Son, Ltd.) used for mail from Germany to Canada prior to US entry into the war. Mail was sent on from there under separate cover, as evidenced by the lack of re-direction and the presence of Canadian censor tapes on the German covers.

Grim Barbed Wire In Poland

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Front: A black and white photo of barbed wire and brick buildings. Back: Tribune Cut Order information about the photo.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Wire photo identifying the photo as occurring in Poland, probably of a ghetto street, at the forefront of which is a sign that reads "VORSICHT Hochspannung Lebensgefahr" ["DANGER! High voltage will cause death"].

Ukrainian Document Acknowledging Laws That State Who Must Be Considered Jewish

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Front: Light brown paper with columns of printed text in German, Ukrainian and Polish.Back: Continuation of text.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Document issued in Ukrainian, Polish and German languages. One side states the infamous laws saying who must be considered Jewish. The second part is to be signed and states that the signer is acquainted with the laws and is not Jewish. Either the paper had to be signed to join the Ukrainian SS Division "Galichina" or that all Ukrainians working for the Germans had to sign it.

Postcard Of Church At Oradour-Sur-Glane

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Front: Color photograph of the courtyard of a church.Back: Blue printed postcard lines and text in French.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

On June 10, 1944, more than 450 women and children were locked in this church by the Nazis, while the men were locked in barns and sheds. The Nazis detonated an incendiary device in the church; anyone attempting to escape was machine-gunned. The men were shot in the legs; no longer able to move, their bodies were covered in gasoline and the barns were set ablaze. The village of Oradour was partially razed that night.

Drancy Internment Camp Postcard

Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection

Front: A black and white photograph of high-rise apartments with white text in French.Back: Black printed postcard lines.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Drancy was a 1930s high-rise apartment complex in the northeast suburb of Paris before the Nazis confiscated it and utilized it as an internment camp to hold Jews and other “undesirables” who were later deported to the extermination camps. 65,000 Jews were deported from Drancy, of whom 63,000 were murdered, including 6,000 children. The Vichy government under Petain and Laval cooperated with Nazi Germany, hunting down foreign and French Jews and turning them over to the …

Understanding The Candelero: A Synthesis Of Research On The Candeleros Of The Naco And Lower Cacaulapa Valleys, Jacob Griffith-Rosenberger

Four Valleys Archive

No abstract provided.

The Lady Of The Marshes: Place, Identity, And Coudrette’S Mélusine In Late-Medieval Poitou, Shana Thompson

Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture

No abstract provided.

Kenyon College Alumni Bulletin - Winter 2016

Kenyon College Alumni Bulletin

No abstract provided.

Relevant Interdisciplinarity: Taking The Art History Classroom To The Field, Mickey Abel

Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture

No abstract provided.

Defining A New Coast: G.I.S. Reconstruction Of Maillezais Abbey’S Hydraulic Drainage Program And The Coastline It Created, Mickey Abel

Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture

No abstract provided.

Visibility & Control In The Vendee, Dory Deines, Owen Wilson-Chavez

Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture

No abstract provided.

Discoveries

Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture

No abstract provided.