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1945 Bistritz BM Germany Concentration Camp Postcard Cover Albert Unterstab
Up for auction is a beautiful postcard cover from Albert Unterstab, a prisoner in the concentration camp in Bistritz, Romania to Karl Unterstab in Prague, Bohemia Moravia, Czechoslovakia. Note the Sonderlager return address. While in Romania the cover bea ... Read More
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Up for auction is a beautiful postcard cover from Albert Unterstab, a prisoner in the concentration camp in Bistritz, Romania to Karl Unterstab in Prague, Bohemia Moravia, Czechoslovakia. Note the Sonderlager return address. While in Romania the cover bears a B&M postal Stationery card with the Bistritz postmark. .I cannot place links in my listings or e bay will delist the items and punish me, but Google Unterstab anda companion cover to this one resides in the Los Angeles Holocaust museum. According to the wikipedia listing below the Jewish ghetto in Bistritz was "liquidated" in 1945, yet obviously the camp remained and still held prisoners. Unknown if the author and recipeint were Jewish. Unusual to find Camp Covers from Eastern Europe this late in the war as most cmaps had been liberated by the Red Army and the prisoners evacuated West on death marches to evade their liberation by allied forces.Priced to sell. Postmarked February 25, 1945. For the serious collector of Judaica and Holocaust related philately this is an exceptional item. Cover is in excellent condition.Shipping will be a flat $4.00 within the continental U.S. for USPS mail with insurance. Overseas airmail shipping is $14.00. Insurance and registered mail fees included. Questions? Please contact me at: azteccollectables at hotmail.com. Check out my other online auctions of rare and vintage stamps. 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. From Wikipedia and the Jewish Virtual Library:The Bistritz ghetto was one of the Nazi-era ghettos for European Jews during World War II. It was located outside the city of Bistritz (Hungarian: Beszterce) in Bistritz-Nasaud County, Transylvania, now part of Romania but administered as Beszterce-Naszód County by the Kingdom of Hungary from the 1940 Second Vienna Award's grant of Northern Transylvania until late 1944. It was active in the spring of 1944, following Operation Margarethe.The ghetto was set up on the Stamboli farm some 5 km outside Bistritz; some 6,000 Jews from the city and its surrounding communities were crammed onto the farm. Nearly 2,500 of them came from Bistritz itself, with the rest being brought from the upper and lower Bistritz districts, as well as the Nasaud and Rodna districts.[1]Ghettoization was ordered by Bistriz mayor Norbert Kuales and his chief of police, Miklós Debreczeni. In other parts of the county, known as Beszterce-Naszód County while under Hungarian administration, the operation was carried out by László Smolenszki, assistant to the county prefect, and gendarmerie lieutenant-colonel Erno Pasztai. Together with Adolf Eichmann's assistant László Endre, the four had taken part in a planning conference at Târgu Mure on April 28.[1] Kuales stole valuable objects from detainees, taking them with him when he resigned as mayor and left for Germany that summer.[2]The ghetto was inadequate for basic needs, with residents housed in barracks or pigsties. One Heinrich Smolka was tasked with supplying water and food, which for the most part he did very poorly. Among those who persecuted Jews alongside Smolka was Gusztáv Órendi, a Gestapo agent from Bistritz. Local police forces guarded the ghetto with 25 gendarmes from Dumitra, sent there by colonel Paksy-Kiss. Kálmán Borbély became county prefect on May 10.[1] In two transports, on June 2 (3,106) and June 6 (2,875), 5,981 Bistritz Jews were deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp.[Seller Information
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