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Worldwide Stamps and Covers POLAND Internment of Polish Soldiers in Spain
Sale No: 0821
Lot No: 1048
Symbol: e
Cat No: Collection
1939-43 six exhibit pages, with 10 covers or cards including mail to the Concentration Camp Miranda de Ebro, from Vichy France, occupied Poland, mail from the camp to Switzerland, unoccupied France, etc., variety of censor markings and franking (Poles in Spain were treated as regular prisoners and did not have any privileges. Without exception, they were subject to regular postal rates). After the fall of France, some Poles attempted to reach Polish Army, which was being rebuilt in England. They tried to cross Spanish territory to Gibraltar or Portugal. Over 1,200 were arrested, placed in prisons and Concentration Camp (Miranda de Ebro), until finally released April-May 1943 and sent to Britain. A rare group of covers, mixed condition, with clear markings and well described on pages (Image)
Est.$1,500
Opening US$ 1,200.00
Sold...US$ 1,200.00
Closed..Aug-11-2021, 11:32:32 EST
Sold For 1200
Sale No: 0821
Lot No: 1049
Symbol: e
1941 (9 Dec) cover sent by Stefan Bartolewski, Polish internee captured on his way to Gibraltar and placed in a military hospital in Pamplona, Navarra (penciled note "letter sent by me from a penal military hospital, I had a broken arm"), with Spanish franking and San Sebastian censor markings, opened by Germans on arrival in Tomaszow Mazowiecki, District Radom. A rare usage from a Spanish military hospital (when the War broke, the sender was in Tomaszow Mazowiecki. He crossed Hungary, Yugoslavia, Italy, and got to France, where he joined the Polish Army and was employed in the French defense industry. When France capitulated he was in Brittany. He got across to the unoccupied territories and was demobilized in Toulouse. For a time he was in an internment camp in the South of France and in February 1941 crossed the Pyrenees into Spain. He and other Polish men were detained and arrested 30 km from Figueras. Next, he was held in prisons at Figueras (wound up in the hospital trying to escape), Cerbere, Zaragoza, and Barcelona, eventually ending up in the Concentration Camp at Miranda de Ebro, where he was confined until 1943) (Image)
