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HOLOCAUST & GHETTO memorabilia, coins, tokens, stamps, mail, paper money, currency, documents
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Postcard from the anti-Semitic exhibition, "The Eternal Jew", Munich, Germany, Nov. 8, 1937 (exactly 1 year before Krystallnacht). Franked and cancelled with special cachet to mark the event, and mailed to a Josef Hagemann in Thuringen-Ulm. Has a few minor surface scuffs. The exhibition ran until 31 January, 1938. According to one source, it attracted 412,000 visitors and Gestapo reports indicated that it fostered a sharp rise in anti-Semitic feelings, leading in some cases to violence against the Jewish community.
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Item Code: 0040007 Price: SOLD
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The following 6 postcards come from the same source, and three of them were mailed to the same individual - enabling us to better understand the cards' sources and content:
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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 "Budapest 1943". Postmarked from Budapest and sent to Chenger (a Satmar Chasidic community); stamped by the military censor ("Ellenorizve"), and sent by Ferenc Flesch of Labor Company 113 vap. The card is densely packed with writing but as of the moment it is difficult to relate its content...
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Item Code: 0020015.2 Price: $50
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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 1943". Postmarked by the Royal Hungarian Movement Post ("M. Kir. Mozgo Posta"), to a "Lady" Biro Ilava, subletting at a location belonging to Taub Ferenc in Budepest. Among the text of the card, the sender writes "Thank G-d I arrived safely. In the meantime no good news." Although the sender is unknown and the content is difficult to read, this is one of 3 cards mailed to Ms. Biro, one of which indicates that the origins of all three are from the labor companies.
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Item Code: 0020015.1 Price: $50
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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 (postmark on a 12 Filler stamp). Postcard is in maroon-red print, from the Royal Hungarian Press, and dated "Budapest 1943". The card is another that was sent to Ms. Bela Ilava, sub-letting at Taub Ferenc. The content is as yet unknown but to my Hungarian translator it looks like it was written in a hurry.
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Item Code: 0020015.4 Price: $50
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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 dated "Budapest 1943". The card was sent from Flesche Pal of the 707/1 Work Company in Diosek to Biro Eudieue sub-letting at Taub Ferenc in Budapest. Biro's name appears as "Ilava" in the other two later-dated cards, suggesting that the writer may have married her sometime after this card. Pal writes: "My love, I arrived alright at the transit camp in Berezbem. I hope that you also feel well. My little one, parting from you was hard. Unfortunately there's not much hope. I wear your soul on me."
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Item Code: 0020015.5 Price: $50
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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 "Budapest 1944". It is postmarked from Budapest and stamped with a "T" cachet, and sent to Mekes Lojos in Budapest. Although the sender's name is not identified and no labor company code appears on the content, this card is part of the same consignment of labor company mail, and its content makes clear from where the sender is writing: "To my sick wife, we have arrived here. We are sleeping on the floor. We have not been fed. There are so many people that the Jewish charity organization can't supply food. If you or someone else would be able to send food, the gate here is open on 9th of November, between 2-4pm. I would gladly pay whatever the price. I would really like cigarettes. Thank G-d I have my health, but my poor wife, I don't know if I can hold up."
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Item Code: 0020015.3 Price: $50
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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 Hungarian Labor Company II/4 ("M. kir. II./4. Kmsz. szd. Ellenorizve") in two lines. The card was sent to Veigest Gyorgy.
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Item Code: 0020015.6 Price: $50
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Poland - Lodz (Litzmannstadt) Ghetto 5 Mark coin - 1943, magnesium, F- VF (Franquinet p.64). Under closer examination the piece exhibits good detail and would be EF were it not for the oxidation and corrosion. One of a series of coins produced and circulated in the Jewish ghetto, whose dies were manually engraved, the 5 Mark issue was released for circulation in February 1944.
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Item Code: 0010082 Price: $50
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