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Worldwide Stamps and Covers POLAND Internment of Polish Soldiers in Sweden
Sale No: 0821
Lot No: 1050
Symbol: e
Cat No: Collection
1939-45 collection of 8 covers or cards written-up on pages, including a registered cover from Vaxholm to France, endorsed "Kriegsgefangenensendung", also with "Internerings Officeren" (initially correspondence from Polish servicemen was marked as "Prisoner of War", later changed to "Interned Military Mail"), letters from Polish officers interned in Mariefred Camp (near Stockholm), with boxed Swedish censor markings, two cards sent in 1944 from Generalgouvernement to the wife of Lt.Cmdr Wladyslaw Salamon in Mariefred, also a certified copy of a document dated 1 Jan 1945 issued by Polish Naval Headquarters in London, stating that the time of internment of Lt. Cmdr Salamon is to be included in his active military service record. A scarce group (total of 188 Polish servicemen were interned in Sweden. They were crews of Polish submarines ORP "Rys", ORP "Sep", ORP "Zbik", patrol boat "Batory", as well as soldiers from Podhalanian Rifle Brigade who participated in the Allied Campaign in Norway and crossed into Sweden) (Image)
Est.$1,000
Opening US$ 800.00
Sold...US$ 800.00
Closed..Aug-11-2021, 11:32:59 EST
Sold For 800
Sale No: 0821
Lot No: 1051
Symbol: e
Cat No: Collection
1941 (2 Mar) German 15pf stationery card from Generalgouvernement, Gnesen (Gniezno) to Stanislaw Plucinski "Faltpost 800 Stockholm", internee from ORP "Rys" (Polish submarine interned in Sweden on 17 September 1939 after she had patrolled in the Baltic and also returned to Poland after the war), with German departure and Swedish censor markings on arrival, fine (Image)
Est.$300
Opening US$ 290.00
Closed..Aug-11-2021, 11:33:14 EST
Sold For 0
Sale No: 0821
Lot No: 1052
Symbol: e
1942 (18 June) postal card from Sweden to Brody, Generalgouvernement, boxed "Services des internes militaires" in French, Swedish and German, with additional violet "Checked by Swedish censorship authorities" handstamp, apparently censored outside the internment camp, undated, sent by Capt. Wilhelm Kamuda (second in command of the Polish Submarine ORP "Zbik", which was interned in Sweden on 27 September 1939 after she had patrolled in the Baltic, returned to Poland after the war), with German censor markings on arrival (Image)
