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China-Berlin mail: pc ex Jewish refugee in Shanghai 31.08.40 to Jewish uncle in Berlin via Siberia; Rosh Hashana (New Year's) greeting; with Wehrmacht censor cachet. מילות מפתח: היסטוריה בולאית...
Commercial cover (Reichs Commissioner stationary) ex office of Reichskommissar for Netherlands (Dr. Arthur Seyss-Inquart) in The Hague to Van Gelder & Sohn paper mill business in Amsterdam, with...
Dutch post-Holocaust: set of 2 repatriation documents (May-June 1945) from liberated Westerbork concentration camp ("k.w.") regarding transport arrangements for Barak and Herschel Bluth; one issued...
Hungarian forced labor mail: early postcard ex labor company 207/8 in work camp ("tabori") on 17.10.40 to Budapest; with military type "514" pmk. Rare early usage: postcard image of Royal Hungarian...
Hungarian forced-labor brigade mail: postcard with maroon 12 Filler pre-paid postage stamp, postmarked 16 Mar. 1943 from Budapest. Postcard is in maroon-red print, from the Royal Hungarian Press, and...
Hungarian forced-labor brigade mail: postcard with maroon 12 Filler pre-paid postage stamp, postmarked 19 Dec. 1944. Postcard is in maroon-red print, from the Royal Hungarian Press, and dated...
Hungarian forced-labor brigade mail: postcard with maroon 12 Filler pre-paid postage stamp, postmarked 3 Dec. 1943 from Kassa (today's Kosice - in Slovakia) and received 4 Dec. 1943 in Budapest...
Hungarian forced-labor brigade mail: postcard with green 18 Filler pre-paid postage stamp, postmarked 11 Jan. 1944. Postcard is in blue-green print, from the Royal Hungarian Press and dated "Budapest...
Hungarian forced-labor brigade mail: postcard with green 18 Filler pre-paid postage stamp, postmarked 29 Mar. 1944. Postcard is in blue-green print, from the Royal Hungarian Press, and dated...
Hungarian forced-labor brigade mail: black and white picture postcard of Banhida, postmarked 15 Oct. 1942 from Banhida, with a black 3 Filler stamp. The card is stamped by the censor of the Royal...
Jewish airmail postcard 10/1941 ex Wittersdorf (German occupied and annexed Alsace, France) to Potenza, Italy; written in German on German pc with German franking; sent via Berlin, with Italian arr...
Ghetto Judenrat cachet: Lemberg (Lvov) pmk 8.6.43 tying Deutches Reich General Gouvernement stp to Polish pc.; prepared but unused. Rare: the Ghetto and the remainder of the Judenrat had already been...
Dutch emigration confirmation receipt from the Emigration service ("Auswanderungsabteilung") of the Jewish Council of Amsterdam of emigration request by Herbert Hirsch, on 15.12.41. מילות...
Parcel packet receipt ex "Krakau" 29.05.43 to "Community Camp" (labour camp) Spandau Freiheit in Berlin, arr. 10.6.43; issued on form DPO 443 (3.41) of the Administration for German Post in the...
Parcel packet receipt ex Oslo (Norway) 24.08.43 to Oranienburg concentration camp in Berlin, arr. 27.08.43; issued on Norwegian postal stationary. Non-Jewish named recipient; maybe POW. Rare. מילות...
Parcel packet receipt ex Riga (Latvia) 20.8.43 to "Einsatzstab Reichleiter Rosenberg" in Kiev, arr. 1 Sept 43. This Einsatzstab, named after Alfred Rosenberg, was the entity responsible for...
Postwar Poland/USSR (1946-47): the following 3 documents relate to the movements and whereabouts of a Jewish-Polish Holocaust survivor, Berek Frydman. They give a fascinating insight into the...
Judenrat Warsaw: ppc ex Warsaw Ghetto 27.01.42 to Switzerland; w/2-lined boxed "Judenrat Warschau" cachet, multiple censor cachets and Wehrmacht cachet; portion of text censored out. מילות...
Theresienstadt ("Polish Prison Camp") pre-printed change of address postcard ex 27.03.44 w/Bauschowitz pmk. Text says to please not send more packages to this address and to wait for new address...
Romanian refugee camp mail: ex Polish Refugee Camp (per cachet) 26 MAR 41 by an "internee" to city of Brasov, arr 29 MAR 41; with Police censor cachet. Unusual: camp probably set up to house ethnic...