world war two

TEL AVIV - WARSAW GHETTO - TEL AVIV: 1940, Palestine enquiry form, of the War Organisation of the British Red Cross and Order of St. John, Jerusalem, from Elimelech Mendelson of Tel Aviv, to his Father, Issak Hersz Mendelson, Elektoralna 25, Flat 5, Warschau", with "DPO" (Deutsche Post Osten), added below in mss. Message dated December 16,1940: "We are healthy & well … worried about you." The Warsaw Ghetto walls were closed on November 16,1940, hence, this enquiry was written exactly one month later.

WOJES KOMITET Z.VDOW POLSKICH in Lublin, Poland, document issued for Liba Erlichman with thee two line hstmps (fragile & damaged due to age and handling), Second document for same person, also typed letter dated 2 July 1942,

PALESTINE POST TELEGRAM received 8 FE 1940 from LWOW, sent by Meda Spatz on behalf of several Jewish refugee families who managed to escape from Nazi occupied Poland, text has “In great necessity, ask immediate help”

HOLOCAUST RELATED -3 mailed items ex Palestine: (1) 1/1941 NA'HALAL (D 8) cvr frank 15m (3 x# 93) to Switzerland' Jewish·Refugee forwarded to him in Tel Aviv in “Arbeistlager Gomdola / Tessin, (2) 3/6/45 Tel Aviv postal card total franking 20 mil for airmail, text “on .1.6.45 I saw the names of mu mother and sister that are in liberated Terezin…Please send them packages (3) 18.6.45 same correspondence.

HAIFA REGISTERED 7 AUGUST 1938 registered airmail to Hamburg, returned as undeliverable (label on back), sent to Dead Letter Office (30 AUG 1938 pmk on back) [front on web]

BUDAPEST, HUNGARY APRIL 1944 registered, locally addressed Request by Jew to be in possession of a radio, opened on side, green handstamp “Jewish radio license service”

BUDAPEST, HUNGARY 31 MAR1941 registered airmail to Lisbon, arrival pmk on back [back on web]

BUDAPEST TO VIENNA (WEIN) 2 postal cards regarding same correspondence, OKW censor, ISRAEL in name, vert folds

1946 DUTCH TEMPORARY I.D. CARD for foreigners with British Embassy in Hague cachet "Valid for Arrival in Palestine", French transit visa "destination: Palestine", and 2 Government of Palestine violet rubber cachets "Dept. of Migration ... Permitted to remain permanently in Palestine as an immigrant", and ''Tel-Aviv Rationing Office". A rare document of the saga of a German Holocaust survivor's resettlement from Holland to Palestine [cover om web]

AMSTERDAM NOV 1940 stationery cover of FIRMA SA MARKINS, addressed to SORNEWITZ-MEISSEN, OKW censor tape and handstamps [back on web]