Auction #43

STUTTHOF - 10/1944 neutral lettersheet Simon t.2 frank Hitler 12pf pmk STUTTHOF / DANZIG mailed to Kartaus, boxed 3 line: Postzensurstelle Konzentrationslager Stutthof...; fine & scarce

7/1944 - 2 pcs Jew. corresp. between father in Theresienstadt & daughter in Boras - Sweden:

a) Pc written in Camp on 25 April 1944 pmkd in BERLIN / CHARLOTTENBURG 8.7.44 (2½  months after dispatch!) frank 15pf Hitler, censored & w/2 line cachet: Ruckantwort ... Simon t.1, redirected in Sweden; b) Thank You card t.4 written in Camp 13 Juli & pmkd in PRAGA 23.VII frank 1.20 Boh./Mor. Hitler stp,...

3 Camps - 5 items: a) Auschwitz lettersheet t.1a, 2/1943 frank  12pf Hitler to Litzmannstadt, censor t.3 + 4 lines: regist. parcels... forbidden; b) Buchenwald - 1/1944 frank 6pf Hitler to Hostivice, 3 cachets on face: Postprufer 6, Schrift... nur deutsch & 2 lines: Konzen... Weimar - Buchenwald; Sachsenhausen – 3 items: c) Postcard Simon t.2, frank 6pf Hindenburg to Prag; d) Lettersheet t.7, 5/1941 frank 12pf...

4 items: a) Auschwitz 3/1942 telegram "Death notice" to Anna Skalniak in Wachock arrival pmk; b) Hungary Labor Camp "... Zsido Munkas Szazad" cachet on face of pc 9/1940 to Budapest; + Litzmannstadt 2 items: c) 2/1942 note by the Chief Secretary to the local office re: Identitats Karten, Aeltestenrat cachet; d) 7/1943 work permit for Schneider Ableq & Kravice Majer, "Physische Arbeiter" cachet; item c w/...

5 Camps - 7 items: Buchenwald: a) Postcard Simon t.5 3/1943 to Kreis Siedlce, stp off, boxed censor; b) 10/1943 neutral pc frank 6pf mailed to Distr. Lublin, censor t.2 & 2 lines: "Ich darf alle 6 Wochen..." + 3 lines: "...nur deutsch"; Oranienburg - 2 neutral lettersheets both same corresp. to Zirke frank 12pf; c) 4/1944 censor L; d) 5/1944 censor M; Sachsenhausen: e) 11/1940 lettersheet t.10 to Sterdyn, censor H,...

DUTCH: Camp Westerbork - 15.11.43 Dutch 5c pc entire uprated w/additional 2½ c stp  mailed to L. Stern in St. Gallen - Switz., Nazi OKW censor mark + straight line Gepruft, addressee's note in Dutch "Answered 18/12" all on face; vf

2 Dutch items: a) 1/1941 air mail pc to New York via Joodsche Raad Voor Amsterdam (cachet on front - Jew. Judenrat) OKW censor & KOLN (!) transit pmk, touching message; b) 11/1942 lager Westerbork certif for Herbert Hirsch of Barak 63 that he received a telegram, small faults; fine (x2)

FRENCH: 2 French items: a) POINT DE DESTINATION / DES ETRANGERS circular cachet on face of 4/1940 Regist cv ex St. Jusy en Chaussee to Haifa - Palest., the Jew. Agency, probably by a Jew. Refugee, censored & arrival pmk; b) 1/1941 Camp de Gurs F.M. pc to Antwerpen, Double Addressed via Geneva Red Cross, Camp's cachet on face & Nazi censor; vf (x2)

1939 - 7 mailed items (4 pcs & 3 cvs, 2 w/original contents) dated 22 & 23/9, 1+13+17+21+22/10 all by wife in Paris Rome hotel (they were refugees) to husband Dr. Yakob Kraminer in "Camp de Rassemblement, Mesley sur Maine, Groupe 20 Ex Autrichiens" (Assembly Camp... ex Austrian Group). In the letter of 1/10/1939 she mentions a long list of items that she is sending him, incl.: "2 Pullover, 1 Weste, 2 Packet Zigaretten...

5 French Camps: a) 7/1941 Camp du Vernet cv to R. Cross Geneve, Camp's censor on back; b) 7/1940 pc ex Camp St. Cyprien to the USA; c) 8/1941 Camp de Recebedou pc to Zurich, Camp's cachet on back; d+e) Centre de Rassemblement des Femmes / Veladrome d'Hiver - Paris, 2 cvs from husband in another Camp to wife 5/1940 & 8/1940 - cachet on face - scarce mail; fine (x5)

French African Camps - 3 cvs to Tel-Aviv: a) 9/1940 ex

"G. Ermana Interne Civil, Camp de SELIKPOTANE pres Dakar (Senegal) Afrique France", stp tied by pmk DAKAR / SENEGAL (stp removed from cv & replaced), British censor label; b) 2/1945 cv ex Ada Schenbaum in DP "Unrra Camp Jeanne D'Arc, Philippeville - Algerie", French & British censor labels, Alger stps tied by pmks: PHILIPP... CONSTANTINE...