1943 (May 3/10) Stampless O.A.S covers with dated H.M Ship censor cachets, the first to Sussex with minor water staining, officially sealed in the London Returned Letter Section and backstamped "DAMAGED BY ENEMY ACTION"; the second cover from H.M.S "Frisky" to Scotland, soiled and singed with a large portion torn away, backstamped "DAMAGED AS A RESULT OF ENEMY ACTION", both covers believed to have been damaged by a German air raid on Manchester. (2). £140-160
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1943 Stampless O.A.S covers, with red Maritime Mail machine or handstamp, both with a little singeing, handstamped "DAMAGED AS A RESULT / OF ENEMY ACTION", one to London with H.M Ship censor dated June 7th, the other to Scotland with an enclosed letter of September 14th. (2). £140-160
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Thomas Cook - P.O. Box 506. 1940-42 Covers from France (2), Belgium, Holland, Italy or Hungary all to P.O. Box 506 Lisbon, the Thomas Cook undercover address for forwarding mail from occupied Europe to Great Britain, all with British censor seals applied over the Lisbon backstamps. (6). £250-300
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Thomas Cook - P.O Box 506. 1940-42 Covers from Belgium (3) or Italy addressed to P.O Box 506 Lisbon, all readdressed with yellow labels to London and posted within London with a G.B 2½d stamp (two perfined "TC/S", another with the G.B stamp removed), handstamped violet oval "THOS COOK & SON, LTD / BERKELEY STREET, W.1" (3, all slightly different cachets) or "THOS COOK & SON LTD / ENEMY MAIL", two Belgian covers with some opening faults, the other two fine. (4). Photo on Page 88. £200-240
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Thomas Cook / Canada. 1940-41 Covers from Germany to P.O. Box 252, New York (2, one readdressed to Albert Canyon, B.C, the other with "CANADA INT. OP / CENSORED" cachet) or from Lisbon to Thomas Cook, 587 Fifth Avenue, New York, both undercover addresses used by Thomas Cook for forwarding mail from enemy occupied Europe to Canada. (3). £140-160
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1939-44 Covers mainly from abroad to British forces including covers addressed to Chief Postal Censor, Cambridge House London W.C1, High Commission for New Zealand, or to private or Bank addresses, all redirected; also three covers to P.O Box 367 in Port Elizabeth (two from P.O.Ws in Italy), cover from a Royal Marine at Box 149, 1944 (June 18) O.A.S cover from France with "A.P.O London" address adopted for D-Day operations, etc. (13). £100-120
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G.B - Bletchley Park / Special Liaison Unit. 1942-44 Covers from Switzerland to Flying Officer Percival in London (3), all with enclosed letters from his German born wife, to P.O Box 444 (Special Liaison Unit, based in Beirut, which passed information on to Bletchley Park), or readdressed to Box 111 Bletchley (2), one with enclosed P.C 177 censors form (letter requests photograph - sending of photos prohibited). Also forces covers to Box 111 Bletchley (2), and a cover posted in London with enclosed letter from Box 444 (sent from Beirut by diplomatic bag). (6). £260-300
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G.B - French Forces. 1942-45 Covers to London, from France (2, one stampless, endorsed "F.M"), Senegal (stampless but not charged) or stampless covers from French forces (2, British F.P.O 801 or "Poste Navale" c.d.s), addressed to Free French forces at Box F10 (Navy), P.O Box 244 (3, Army) or P.O Box 236 (Air Force, 341 Alsace Sqd at Perranporth). Also a 1943 cover from Box F10 (French Navy) posted from Emsworth to "Leo Paul Charette, Fighting French Air Force, Old Dean Camp, Camberley" redirected with "Courier Des F.A.F.L" cachet and "Poste Aux Armees FFC / B.C.M 7" c.d.s, the last with a few opening faults, otherwise fine. (6). £130-160
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G.B - Belgian / Dutch Forces. 1942-44 Covers and an airgraph from USA, Portugal, Argentina or Algeria to Belgian forces, addressed to P.O Box 218 (3, Belgian Army) or Box 262 (Air Force) in London; or from USA, Canada, Palestine or France to Dutch forces, addressed to P.O Box 237 (3, Dutch Army) or P.O Box 264 (Air Force) in London. Also a cover to Holland and airgraph to South Africa both from P.O Box 237. (10). £160-200
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G.B - Czech / Polish Forces. 1941-45 Covers to or from Czech or Polish forces via London addresses, comprising covers from G.B (2, one with Czech F.P.O c.d.s), USA (2) or Switzerland to Czech Army at Czech Ministry at War, 145 Piccadilly, or P.O. Box 226 (4, all with Czech F.P.O arrival datestamps) or to Czech Air Force at P.O. Box 281; covers from Canada or Polish forces in Egypt to Polish Army at P.O Box 260, covers from Polish Navy at P.O Box 293 or Air Force at P.O Box 277, and cancels of the Polish navy ship "Wojenna" with return addresses at P.O. Box 260 or 34 Belgrave Square (address of Polish Government in Exile). (12). £240-280
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G.B - South American & West Indies Volunteers. 1940-45 Covers to volunteers from South America or the West Indies serving in the British army or air force, sent from Argentina (3), Peru or Chile addressed c/o River Plate House, Finsbury Circus, London, E.C.2; or from Bermuda or Trinidad addressed c/o West India Committee, 40 Norfolk St., London E.C, five redirected, one to Foggia, Italy. (7). £100-120
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Switzerland. 1940-44 Covers and cards to undercover addresses in Switzerland including G.B to Reguma A.G in St. Gallen (for Holland), USA to Hotel Baur au Lac in Zurich forwarded to Germany, cover from Rotary International in Zurich (mail from British P.O.Ws), G.B to Helen Lubke or Poland to Helene Laubitz (both for mail between Poland & G.B), Poland to Jewish Aid Committee in Geneva, etc. (8). £150-180
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Portugal. 1941-45 Covers and cards to (12) or from (4) undercover addresses in Portugal, with covers from Lisbon sent from HICEM (Jewish Aid) to the Committee for Protection of Jewish Immigrants in Chile, 8 Rua Marques da Fronteira (Free French forces), 12 Rua dos Fanqueiros (Belgian Aid Society) or the Unitarian Service Committee; Holland to Villa Maria de Luz at Estoril (Netherlands food parcels); Belgium to Office du Collis Alimentaires (coded message about smuggled Jewish refugees), Rua Loreto 10 (for Belgian Embassy in London) or Pedro Bento d'Azeweda (Belgian food parcels); and covers or cards from Poland (8) to various addresses. (16). £350-400
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USA. 1941-43 Covers to undercover addresses in USA including Fund for Belgium, Washington D.C; Dutch Consulate Room 407, New York (to Dutch Navy); P.O Box 463, Anaheim (mail for Canada from Holland); P.O Box 165, Washington D.C (to Royal Navy); also a cover posted from USA to Holland originally enclosing a letter from Borneo. (6). £120-140
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USA - Merchant Navy. 1940-43 Covers to merchant seamen at undercover addresses in New York City, from Cuba, G.B, Holland, Denmark (2), Norway or France, one redirected to Wales, an unusual group. (7). £120-150
Jewish Refugee Mail
(Also See Lots 728-736, 856/9) |
1939 Postcards from Czechoslovakia to Gustav Munz in Vienna (March) or Scotland (June), both from his cousin; 1938 Rumania postcard to Bertha Munz in Vienna and 1947 registered cover from Rumania to Bertha Muenz at P.O. Box 506, Lisbon, redirected with a yellow label to London and posted with a G.B 2½d (T.C/S perfin), handstamped oval "THOS COOK & SON LTD / BERKELEY ST., W.1". Also letters and documents concerning the Munz family including Gustav Munz certificate of service in the German army in WW1, 1939 (May) document and letter issued in Vienna concerning emigration of Gustav and Bertha to England, etc. (8). Photo on Page 88. £150-180
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1939-45 Covers (most with letters) and cards to Hans or Erna Freudenheim in London, posted from Switzerland (18) Belgium (2), France (2) Sweden or Holland, also a 1946 letter from a Concentration Camp survivor written at Regensburg with a stampless cover bearing a red London S.W1 Paid datestamp, and various additional letters without envelopes. The Sweden letter reports receiving a letter from an aunt arrested by the Gestapo and held in a Concentration Camp. An interesting correspondence. (25+). £200-250
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Holland / Belgium / Switzerland / Portugal. 1939-44 Covers and cards with 1939 (Nov 13) cover posted within Switzerland to "Jakub Jakubowicz No. 239, Camp de Refugies de Buren" with boxed "Censure"; 1940 card from Holland to USA written in Hebrew; 1943 Holland 5c postcard from Westerbork Concentration Camp; 1944 Portugal cards from refugees at Hotel Tivoli, Lisbon, or "c/o Committee for Jewish Refugees" at Caldas da Rainha (censored in Bermuda); and 1944 (Dec 1) Belgium card from Brussels to USA with interesting message "we had a terrible time, had to hide during a long time which did not impede the Gestapo making Koete prisoner during 3 weeks at the famous Malines Camp. Fortunately I succeeded to get her liberated as a nurse, whereupon she worked at the Jewish hospital in Brussels ....". (6). £120-150
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Eastern Europe. 1939-45 Covers and cards with 1939 (July 8) cover from London to Warsaw returned unknown, 1941 (July 22) Poland 30g postcard from Warsaw to Alfred Schwarzbaum, Lausanne (undercover address for Jews) with tiny boxed "JUDENRAT / WARSCHAU" cachet, 1943-44 postcards from Prague to Pension Beha in Lugano (3), and 1945 registered cover from Russia to G.B. (6). £100-120
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Australia. 1941-42 Covers from Jewish Internees in Tatura Camp 2, stampless (7) or franked 2½d (4), including covers to The Zionist Federation for Australia and New Zealand (4) or Australia Jewish Welfare Society (5), two from Rabbis, and a cover from G.B to No. 2 Internment Camp with large violet "INTERNMENT CAMP / TATURA, VIC."; 1941 air mail postcards from No. 7 Camp at Hay franked 2/9 to G.B (2); lettersheet franked 1/6 to Palestine with "PERMISSION / GRANTED" cachet and a cover to The Society of Friends in Sydney franked 4d both from No.8 Camp at Hay. (15). £250-300
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Australia. 1940-45 Covers and cards, airgraph and a Red Cross message form with 1940 covers from Singapore to the Jewish Refugee Relief Committee in Melbourne (2, one from the Singapore J.R.R.C); 1942 cover from The Bureau of Jewish Affairs in Sydney to The American Academy for Jewish Research; 1943 Australian Red Cross message service form from Bratislava Jewish Ghetto in Slovakia to "Fritz Guttenberg, c/o Chief Field Censor, L.H.Q, Australia" (an ex 'Dunera' Internee); 1945 (Sep 14) 2d postcard uprated 7d to the Red Cross in Geneva with "O.A.T" cachet, forwarding a message to his father in Budapest (recently returned from deportation - "read your name on list of survivors from Buchenwald ...."); also a cover from a refugee in New Zealand, etc. (8). £180-220
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Bermuda. 1942 (July 25) Printed shipping line envelope to France, from A. Winnikow on the S.S "Nyassa", posted at Hamilton franked 2/-, censor seal and Lisbon backstamp. An unusual cover from a Jewish evacuee ship. £120-150
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Canada. 1939-42 Covers comprising 1939 covers from Holland to a refugee at Toronto Y.M.C.A (3); 1941 stampless cover from Austria to Internee Camp A; covers from the refugee camps at Sherbrooke (5) or Ile aux Noise, or from Internment Camp N. (11). £200-250
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China. 1940-48 Covers and cards from refugees in Shanghai (15) or Hankow, three registered, wartime covers sent within China or to Germany (3) or USA (8), post-war covers to Austria, USA, G.B or Palestine. Three covers from Else Baum to Henrietta Lechner in Chicago, four covers or cards to Fritz Weissenberg in New York. (16). £250-300
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China. 1939-47 Covers from P.O. Box 1425, Shanghai, the undercover address of the Jewish Aid Organisation HIAS, comprising 1939 cover registered to the HICEM office in Paris, 1944 cover from "Hugo Wolf, German emigrant, c/o Jewish Central Information Bureau HICEM, G.P.O.B 1425" registered to Switzerland, and 1947 cover to HIAS office in San Francisco with Chinese HIAS cachet. (3). £100-120
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China. 1939-41 Covers and cards from Germany to Jewish refugees in Shanghai, three from Jewish senders with "Israel" or "Sara" added to their name. Seven endorsed via Siberia, various P.O Box addresses including P.O Box 1131 (2, Jewish Refugee Centre) and other possible undercover addresses. (9). £160-180
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China. 1940-46 Covers and a card to Jewish refugees in Shanghai, comprising 1940 picture postcard from Samobor, Yugoslavia, to "Friedrich Fusth, c/o Jewish Refugee Centre 1, P.O Box 1137, Shanghai" with red crayon "SS"; 1941 cover from Palestine; 1942 registered cover from Tokyo with six Japanese stamps and censor label; and 1946 cover from Austria to Chang Yang Lu Camp. (4). £100-120
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China / Hong Kong. 1941 (June 23) Cover from a Jewish refugee in USA, to "Max Levinsson, P.O.B 1131, Shanghai" (undercover address for the Jewish Refugee Centre), green double ring "AIR TRANSIT / 5" applied in Hong Kong, partly covered by blue "G R / OPENED BY CENSOR / HONG KONG" seal tied by boxed "21" and Chinese censor, also backstamped boxed "60". Photo on Page 88. £100-120
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France - Camp de Gurs. 1939-41 Covers (6, two registered) and a stampless forces postcard all from Jewish internees in Camp de Gurs with the camp c.d.s, three with oval camp censor cachets, one to another prisoner in Camp 8 at Argeles-sur-Mer, others to France, Holland, USA (2), Brazil or Uruguay, the 1942 registered cover to Uruguay held by the British censor until 1946 when delivery was attempted but unclaimed and returned to France. (7). £180-220
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France & Colonies. 1940-45 Covers and cards from Jewish refugees in unoccupied France (7), one 1945 cover posted at Lavaur with printed "Maison du Prisonnier, Centre D'Entraide des Prisonniers de Guerres repatries, deportes et leur famille du Canton de Lavaur"; 1941-47 card from G.B and cover from USA, the latter returned handstamped "SERVICE SUSPENDED / RETURN TO SENDER"; 1941 stampless cover from Camp Djelfa, Algeria, to the Red Cross with camp censor cachet; and 1942 cover from USA to a female internee in Camp Sidi el Ayachi at Azemour, Morocco, censored in Bermuda. (11). £140-160
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France. 1941-42 Covers and a card from Camp D'Argeles-sur-Mer with camp c.d.s and censor cachet, Camp de Recebedou or Camp de St. Cyprien with camp censor cachets, postcard from Paris to Camp du Vernet with camp censor, or from G.B to Camp-de-Noe (censor cachet) or Camp Les Milles. (6). £150-180
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Germany / Austria. 1940-48 Covers including wartime covers from Jews (3); post-war covers from or to Displaced Persons Camps in Germany (6) or Jewish Camp at Halkein in Austria; 1944 stampless cover from USA to a British civilian internee at Ilag Kreuzberg; 1945 (Feb 2) cover from Norway to a female prisoner in Ravensbruck Concentration Camp with camp censor cachet, stamp removed by the censor, etc., also some ephemera. (17). £170-200
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G.B - Kitchener Camp. 1939-40 Covers or cards from Austria, Rumania (2), USA or Palestine to refugees at Kitchener Camp, Richborough, Kent. Also a 1939 Belgian postcard posted from Ostende to Berlin with return address of Kitchener Camp. (6). £120-150
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G.B - Kitchener Camp. 1939 Covers (8, five with enclosed letters) and a postcard from Austria (4), Belgium (4) or G.B all to Samuel Neuman in Kitchener Camp. (9). £160-200
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G.B. 1938-47 Covers including cover from Rumania to "The Zionist Organisation for Mr A. Ben Gurion" in London; Germany to the "Movement for the Care of Children from Germany" (4); covers from Jewish refugees (6, one to Belgium with "NO SERVICE / RETURN TO SENDER") or to refugees in G.B (5); covers from soldiers in the Jewish Brigade in the British Army (8), etc. (26). £160-180
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G.B. 1940 Postcards (4) and covers (2) from Margot or Steve Nathan in London to their brother Max in USA, the cards all referring to messages to or from their parents in Germany forwarded via Max in the USA, interesting references to an undercover message service to Germany. (6). £100-120
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G.B - Internee Mail. 1939-40 Lettersheets from Hans Geismar (6) or G. Schoenberg in Huyton Camp, and a lettersheet from York Camp all with red Official Paid datestamps; postcard to Siegfried Rosenzweig in Huyton Camp; and a cover to Gustav Jacoby, Internment Camp 23. (10). £180-200
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G.B - Isle of Man. 1939-43 Covers and cards to Jewish refugees interned in the Isle of Man (11), five covers sent to Dr Hans Bach at Onchan Camp, others to Central Promenade Camp, P Camp (with oval "Headquarters, Peel" cachet), Germany to "Shore House, Shore Rd, Port Erin" or to "Women Internment Camp, Hotel Ballaqueeney, Port St. Mary" (both with boxed "WOMEN'S / INTERNMENT CAMP / ISLE -OF-MAN"), or postcards from Switzerland to Y Camp (2, stamps removed). (11). £200-250
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G.B - Isle of Man. 1940 Lettersheets from Kurt Schlesinger in Central Promenade Camp to Berta Schlesinger in London, or from Poldi Schlesinger in Mooragh Camp to Rosa Schlesinger in London (2), these two handstamped "MOORAGH INTERNMENT CAMP", all with red Official Paid c.d.s. Also a cover from London to Kurt Schlesinger in Central Promenade Camp, and photocopies of various letters and documents showing the Schlesinger family escaped from Austria to England in June 1939. (4). £120-150
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G.B - Isle of Man. 1940-47 Covers and cards, Red Cross forms and letters concerning Nurse Frieda Donat, a Czech refugee whose family were all killed by the Nazis, comprising 1940 (May) cover from F. Donat in Margate to Holland but returned with "NO SERVICE / RETURN TO SENDER"; 1940 (Dec.) cover to Nurse Donat, Women's Internment Camp, Port St. Mary; 1941 postcard from Switzerland to the Internment Camp, redirected to Shropshire, with "WOMEN'S / INTERNMENT CAMP / ISLE-OF-MAN"; Red Cross message forms sent to and from relatives in Czechoslovakia (3), etc. (9). £100-120
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G.B - Isle of Man. 1940-44 Covers, lettersheets and postcards from internees, two franked 2½d, the other nine with red Official Paid datestamps (two skeleton c.d.s), four handstamped "MOORAGH INTERNMENT CAMP" (2) or "WOMEN'S INTERNMENT CAMP / ISLE-OF-MAN" (2), others written from Onchan, Rushen or Hutchinson Camps or Golf Links Hotel, Port St. Mary. (11). £250-300
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India. 1942-44 Covers from Jewish Internees at Dehra Dun (3) or Purandhar (5, one with triangular censor cachet), two with stamps to USA or Germany, other stampless covers sent to Germany or within India (5); 1944 stampless cover from an internee in Egypt to an internee at Dehra Dun; also covers from The Jewish Relief Association in Bombay (2), etc. (12). £200-240
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Italy. 1942 Postcards (3, two stampless) and an address label from a Red Cross parcel, all sent from Holland to Philip Kanner interned at Bucchianico, with arrival datestamps; a list of items enclosed in a 1941 parcel to Kanner; and a 1943 (Oct 31) certificate issued by the Americans to Mrs Meta Kanner upon her release from internment, showing she was held at Ferramonti from Sept. 1940 until October 1941, then at Bucchianico until October 1942, and again at Ferramonti Concentration Camp, with "EX-INTERNMENT CAMP FERRAMONTI" cachet. (6). £150-180
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Italy / Greece. 1941-43 Covers and cards comprising 1941 cover from USA to an internee in the Italian Camp at San Giovanni, Rhodes; 1942 cover from G.B and 1943 registered postcard from Hungary to Ferramonti Concentration Camp. Also letters to Helene Lerchenfeld in Vienna from the "Italian Committee for the Assistance of Jewish Emigration" in Trieste (2) or the International Freight Forwarding Co. Hans Neusser (3). (3 covers + 5 letters). £100-120
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Jamaica. 1941-44 Covers and cards comprising stampless items from internees (6, five with oval Internment & P. of W Camp cachets, one from the Women's Internment Camp); and covers from a Dutch female refugee in Gibraltar Camp (3) with stamps cancelled by "GIBRALTAR CAMP" c.d.s or at Kingston or Cross Roads, sent to her husband in the Dutch army in Canada or at the undercover address P.O Box 237, London E.C.1 (2), all fine. (9). £150-180
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Mauritius. 1941-45 Covers (6, two registered) and a 10c postcard from Beau Bassin Jewish Refugee Camp, all with P.O Box 1000 return address and triangular censor cachets, to G.B (2), Palestine (2), USA, Australia or the Red Cross in Switzerland, and an air mail cover from G.B to P.O Box 1000 Mauritius. One registered cover with a stamp removed, another with flap missing, otherwise fine, a good group. (8). Photo on Page 88. £300-400
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Palestine. 1939-44 Covers from internees in various detention camps (4, three stampless, one to Zagreb); 1939 stampless cover from Germany to an internee at Acre, redirected to Waldheim and Sarona; and 1941 cover and card to Fritz Barber in Ahlit Detention Camp. Barber had been on the S.S "Patria" in Haifa Harbour, about to sail for Mauritius, when the ship was blown up by the Jewish underground army, the Haganah. (7). £220-260
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Palestine. 1942-47 Covers and cards from or to refugees in Palestine (7) including covers to Argus Information Service or Haavara Ltd (established to transfer Jewish property from Nazi Germany to Palestine), one G.B cover with "PLEASE INFORM SENDER / AIR MAIL SERVICE NOT AVAILABLE"; 1945 Red Cross letter from Paris to Palestine regarding displaced persons; 1942 Red Cross message form from France to Palestine; and 1947 censored cover from a detainee in Latrun Prison, detained by the British for terrorist activities. (10). £100-120
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Rumania / P.O Box 506. 1940-43 Covers from Bucharest to Samuel Schmeidler, two 1940 covers addressed to London, two 1942-43 covers addressed to P.O Box 506, the Thomas Cook undercover address for mail from occupied Europe to G.B, two registered. (4). £120-140
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South America. 1940-45 Covers to or from Jewish refugees in Argentina (2), Chile (7), Cuba (9), Mexico (3) or Venezuela, several to or from Jewish aid organisations. (22). £120-140
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