Judaic, Jewish-related & Zionist Postal History

Postwar WWII illegal Jewish immigration mail service: April 1946 era postmarked commercial cover sent by a Displaced Person on board the "Dov Hoz" illegal immigrant ship & posted at LA SPEZIA Italy, addressed to MESHEK YAGUR; the franks & a portion of front are torn away - the cover would have been franked 15 Lira; backstamped with ship's bilingual circular handstamp "Repatriation Ship Fede - Dov ...

Jewish Synagogues: Czechoslovakia > Prague - OLD JEWISH CEMETARY black and white photographic postcard by Photobrom (1907 edition) with printed Czech caption on front. Used: postmarked (date unclear) from PRAGUE to NETSCHETIN (Nečtiny), franked 5h & tied by local postmark....

Jewish Synagogues: Czechoslovakia > Prague - ALTNEU SHUL ("Old-New" Synagogue), uncredited black and white photographic postcard with coarse edges, with multilingual caption below (where English translation is "School"). Unused. The Synagogue is Europe's oldest active synagogue, established in 1270 and survived the Holocaust....

Jewish Synagogues: Germany > Nürnberg - GREAT SYNAGOGUE (on Hans-Sachs-Platz) in background of Pegnitz river view on unattributed Agfa black and white photographic postcard with German caption on front. Unused. The Synagogue was inaugurated in 1874 and was destroyed by the Nazis in August 1938, prior to Krystallnacht....

Jewish Synagogue postcards: Czechoslovakia > Prague - photo postcard of the Alt Neu Shul, postally used 1925....

Jewish Synagogue postcards: Czechoslovakia > Teplice (Bad Teplitz-Schonau) - photo postcard of the town with the Synagogue in foreground and in the caption, postally used 1929....

Jewish Synagogue postcards: Czechoslovakia > Prague - artistic picture postcard of the Alt Neu Shul published on thick art paper (no caption), postally used 1930....

Jamaica Patriotic Stamp League commercial cover franked by George V 1½d "War Stamp" + Stamp League Red Cross label (½d) - 3rd version, and tied by SP 17 1917 ANNOTTO BAY postmark. The league was founded in 1915 by Lewis Ashenheim to raise funds for the British Red Cross Society, establish a Jamaican airplane fund, and to provide relief for Polish Jews. These labels were sold at all post ...

Lot of 4x Polish philatelic items commemorating WWII and the Holocaust, including addressed photographic postal card of Auschwitz postmarked on 22 Feb 1948 + numbered illustrated philatelic sheetlet...

Lot of 6x French philatelic items commemorating Judaism, Zionism & WWII/Holocaust, including 1956 first day cover of the deportation to Natzweiller concentration camp; a numbered 1987 Ben-Gurion centennary cover; a 1979 postally used cover to BUDAPEST with special cachets commemorating the centennary of the DIJON Synagogue....

East German philatelic commemoration of WWII victims: 1960 issued adorned folio commemorating key German-communist personalities who died at Sachsenhausen concentration camp, with mounted display of 10 official postage stamps dedicated to the event & the personalities; the stamps are tied by special commemorative cachets & ORANIENBURG postmarks; the back cover bears a quotation from the East Germa...

Judaic & Zionist philately/paraphilately: lot of 7x covers and postcards from Austria, Canada, Sweden and Switzerland, from 1964-1995; featuring images, designs, stamps and imprints related to Israel, Synagogues, the Holocaust/White Buses, Moses & Aaron, the Zionist movement; includes special cachets & special stamp tabs....

Judaic & Zionist philately/paraphilately: lot of 7x covers and postcards from (West) Germany & West Berlin, from 1966-1988; featuring images, designs, stamps and imprints related to Israel, Synagogues, the Holocaust, Anne Frank, the Jewish community, Bnei Brith; includes special cachets; some appear postally mailed....

Judaic & Zionist philately/paraphilately: lot of 7x covers and postcards from Belgium, Malta, Netherlands, Panama, Portugal and Uruguay, from 1975-2014; featuring images, designs, stamps and imprints related to Israel, Synagogues, end of WWII/Holocaust/liberation from camps, joint stamp issues with Israel, Marc Chagall, the Jewish National Fund (JNF); includes special cachets....

Second Boer War (1899-1902) mail: 25 JULY 1901 plain envelope from RAGAMA prisoner of war camp in Ceylon to addressee in HUMANSDORP in Cape Colony "South Africa", franked 6c, opened and sealed by censor using vertical black on pink E. Arms R. /Opened Under Martial Law label tied by oval camp censor cachet, then frank tied by RAGAMA CAMP skeleton postmark, same day COLOMBO transit (postmark on fron...

Jewish mail during the 1920 Polish-Soviet War: 11 VI 1920 postmarked artistic picture postcard entitled "The Rebbe and the Talmid", with caption in Hebrew & Hebrew-spelled Yiddish, of painting by M. Trinbetsch; published by Verlag Jehudia, Warsaw as issue #111 of the series; from KRAKOW to GELSENKIRCHEN Germany, franked 50 fenigow & tied by local postmark + bold black Polish instructional marking....

Jewish Synagogues: Czechoslovakia > Olmütz - OLOMOUC SYNAGOGUE in colored multiple photograph display postcard of the town by Hermann Seibt of Meissen (1908 edition) with Art Deco styled title & German captions below images on front, including of the Synagogue. Used: postmarked 8-07-1909 from OLMUTZ to CZERNOWITZ (today: Chernivtsi, Ukraine), franked 5h & tied by local postmark + 2(pf) denominate...

Mail to/from Romania on the eve of Jewish persecution: 1 SEPT 1940 postcard from TEL AVIV to sender's mother at in PUTNA Romania ("Judetul Radauti Bukovina" - Radauti county in Bukovina), written in German, franked 10m per 8m overseas postcard rate & tied by single strike of local postmark; passed Palestine Censor T6(?) either on dispatch or return; unclear double-ringed transit mark on local post...

Wartime incoming civilian mail: 8 X 1940 cover from KOLOZSVAR (Klausenburg) Hungary to TEL AVIV, franked 40f per period surface rate to Palestine; passed T5 censor (Sach-21a) in TEL AVIV. Rare origin & period: locale occupied by Hungary a month earlier (from Romania 11 Sept.); Hungary entered WWII shortly after, on 20 Nov. 1940. Locale was home-town of important Sanz-Klausenburg Hassidic dynasty. ...

Wartime outbound civilian mail: 22 OCT 1940 registered postcard in German from HAIFA (return addressed Maabarot) to Soviet-occupied LVOV franked 25m using Ba #93/99 per period surface mail rate (10m postcard + 15m registry fee) & tied by full strike HAIFA NAHLA B.O. postmark (GD-120); same day REG HAIFA transit; received LVOV 2-12-40 but as address unknown, marked such (manuscript & French instruc...

Wartime incoming civilian mail: 5 NOV 1940 uprated registered postcard from Soviet-occupied BEREZHANY to HAIFA, in German between 2 Jews, franked 80Kop (2 franks may be missing - postage period rate was 1.10R) & tied by 3 strikes of Berezhany Tarnopol Oblast postmark; passed Palestine Censor H22 & front-stamped 10 JA 41 REG HAIFA arrival, but re-routed to hospital in PETACH TIKVA: front-stamped ne...

WWII mail from Soviet occupied Lithuania: 10 MAR 1941 postmarked Lithuanian postal card with long message in Hebrew-written Yiddish (seems to be 2 messages from 2 different people), from VILNA to care-of addressee in TEL AVIV, here franked with Soviet postage of 30 kopeks (per 1 May 1936 postage rate period surface rate for overseas postcards) - Boyle notes that Soviet postage on mail became manda...

WWII mail from Soviet occupied Lithuania: 13-03-1941 postmarked cover from VILNA to care-of addressee in TEL AVIV, here franked with Soviet postage of 50 kopeks (per 1 May 1936 postage rate period surface rate for 20g overseas letters) & tied by local postmark - Boyle notes that Soviet postage on mail became mandatory on 25 March (eg. almost 10 days later); open/sealed by the pink/black 70/5833 Te...

Holocaust-era 2-way correspondence after Hungary's occupation of Yugoslavia: 26 MAY 1941 dated message in German on British Red Cross/Order of St. John Red Cross "postal message scheme" contact form, sent from daughter in JERUSALEM to mother in recently Hungarian-occupied UJVIDEK (NOVI SAD) in Vojvodina former Yugoslavia; the form was transmitted via the Red Cross office in GENEVA whose cachet is ...