1942 Budapest Hungary Ferramonti Italy Concentration Camp Cover Riccardo Mayer

Item Specifics

Country

Hungary

Condition

Cover (Postal History)

Stamp Format

Single

Item Description

Grade: Ungraded
Up for auction is a beautiful dual censored cover from Budapest Hungary to the concentration camp in Ferramonti de tarsia, Italy. Postmarked December 1, 1942. Beautiful stamps and great cancels and concentration camp and censorship markings. In good condition. Priced to sell. Covers to and from Ferramonti are very rare. Note the addressee is a prisoner named Riccardo Mayer, most likely a German Jew who found himself in Italy when the war broke out. rare Judaica and Holocaust studies material.Shipping will be a flat $5.00 within the continental U.S. for USPS mail. Overseas airmail shipping is $14.00. Questions? Please contact me at: azteccollectables at hotmail.com. Check out my other online auctions of rare and vintage stamps. My e bay store, Aztec Collectables, has a fine and growing selection of unique covers, stamps and postcards. Please make pay arrangements within 72 hours of winning the auction. I will combine shipping on multiple wins, if you want combined shipping wait until I invoice you. More on Ferramonti per Wikipedia:Ferramonti di Tarsia, located near Cosenza in Southern Italy, was an internment camp for Jews and foreigners. It was the largest of the fifteen internment camps established by Benito Mussolini between June and September 1940. Over 3,800 Jews were imprisoned at the camp.The construction of Ferramonti began on June 4, 1940, less than a week before Italy entered World War II. The arrest of Jewish citizens began on June 15, and prisoners began arriving at the camp on June 20. Between June, 1940, and August, 1943, there were 3,823 Jewish internees at Ferramonti, of which only 141 were Italian. The majority, 3,682 people, were foreign-born.The camp was never a concentration camp in the German sense of the term. Internees were allowed to receive food parcels and visit sick relatives. In addition, there were no mail restrictions. None of the internees were killed or subjected to violence. In fact, the internees were constantly protected from deportation to Germany, as the Nazis requested. The main protagonists of this unique example of human solidarity and tolerance were the director of the camp, Paolo Salvatore, and the Capuchin monk, Fra Callisto Lopinot. Prisoners were allowed to organize a nursery, library, school, theater and synagogue. Several couples got married at the camp and 21 children were born.Six weeks after Mussolini's downfall (September, 1943), the prisoners were released. Many of these internees joined the Allied armed forces. About 1,000 of the refugees were shipped to the United States and interned at Camp Oswego, New York. Ultimately, they were released and were permitted to stay in the United States.

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