Envelope from "Israel"

Authors

Object ID

2015.2.92

Object Name

Envelope

Date

3-3-1941

Files

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Description

Blue envelope with address typewritten. Printed Mit Luftpost in blue on bottom left corner. Two pasted stamps in upper right: one pink pasted horizontally with man in profile facing up in silver, and one green with man in profile facing left. A black circular handstamp over each of them. Back: Absender typed with return address written in blue ink. Blue Nazi eagle circular hand stamp below that, and a piece of white censorship tape with upside down Nazi insignia.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: Censored cover sent by one Jewish physician in Allenstein, Germany with the required "Israel" identifier to another physician in New York.

Dimensions

4 1/2 x 6"

Keywords

Wolffheim, Holz, Israel, Stamps, Censored, Mamaroneck, New York, Germany

Recommended Citation

"Envelope from "Israel"" (1941). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2015.2.92.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/323