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Worldwide Stamps and Covers POLAND Polish Prisoners of War in the Soviet Union
Sale No: 0821
Lot No: 1037
Symbol: e
1939 (7 Dec) Russian 20k stationery card, sent Jan 25, 1940 from NKVD POW (requesting war clothing and sending Holiday Greetings to his family) Camp Starobielsk to Przemysl, with Soviet occupied Feb 2, 1940 arrival postmark, fine (In 1939, during the Russian invasion of Poland, some 14,500 Polish officers were captured and interned in three P.O.W. camps in the Soviet Union. The next time the world heard of these prisoners was a news broadcast on April 13, 1943, from Radio Berlin. It stated that the German Army had discovered mass graves at Katyn, containing the bodies of Polish officers. Eight graves were opened and 4,253 bodies exhumed. All were dressed in Polish uniforms, with badges of rank and medals intact. No watches or rings were found on the corpses. It was established that the bodies were of Polish officers from the camp at Kozielsk, situated in the grounds of a former Monastery, near Orel. Two other camps, at Starobielsk (3,891 men) and at Ostashkov (6,311 men) were wound up and closed in the first days of April, 1940. Whatever happened to these 10,000 odd officers has never been established. They were never seen alive again. From evidence obtained after the war, all prisoners of Kozielsk camp were shot by Stalin's NKVD) (Image)
Est.$150
Opening US$ 150.00
Sold...US$ 150.00
Closed..Aug-11-2021, 11:27:28 EST
Sold For 150
Sale No: 0821
Lot No: 1038
Symbol: e
1939 (23 Oct) Russian 20k stationery card (two additional stamps removed), sent from Starobielsk Prisoner of War Camp by General Aleksander Kowalewski, return address "NKVD Camp Starobielsk" and sent to Warszawa, filing fold and archival punched holes at left, rare early POW card (General Kowalewski surrendered to the Soviet Army on 19th September, 1939 and after a short detention in Starobielsk, was transferred to Kharkov and murdered by the NKVD) (Image)
Est.$150
Opening US$ 160.00
Sold...US$ 160.00
Closed..Aug-11-2021, 11:28:11 EST
Sold For 160
Sale No: 0821
Lot No: 1039
Symbol: e
1940 two Soviet stationery cards, one sent 5.5.40 from Yelenovka, addressed to the Polish Red Cross in "Lublin or Warszawa" ("help me find my family"), the other from Lwow (26.5.41) to a Soviet Camp, with "Jurino-Marisa" and "Lwow CCCP Zh.D.P.O." markings, the latter folded, the former with Red Cross arrival datestamp (Image)
Est.$250
Opening US$ 260.00
Sold...US$ 260.00
Closed..Aug-11-2021, 11:28:54 EST
Sold For 260
Sale No: 0821
Lot No: 1040
Symbol: e
1940 (11 Feb) Russian 10k stationery card, with additional 30k franking, sent from NKVD Prisoner of War Camp "Kozielsk" to German occupied Poland, by Major Godycki-Cwirko, enquiring about members of his immediate family in Warszawa, showing transit markings of Moscow and Berlin, with German military censor cachet, card folded, but intact (Major Godycki-Cwirko was murdered in Katyn forest in 1940) (Image)
Est.$250
Opening US$ 260.00
Sold...US$ 260.00
Closed..Aug-11-2021, 11:29:27 EST
Sold For 260
Sale No: 0821
Lot No: 1041
Symbol: e
1940 (26 Jan) postcard from Warszawa to NKVD POW Camp Starobielsk, with Moscow 26.2.40 transit and 5.III. endorsement on back, stamp removed and filing fold, interestingly sent using a Polish postmark, without any German or Russian censor markings. The addressee, Capt. Edward Wrzesniewski was one of the few officers who survived the Katyn Massacre. He was later incarcerated in Pavlishchew Bor and Griazovetz (Image)
Est.$150
Opening US$ 150.00
Sold...US$ 150.00
Closed..Aug-11-2021, 11:29:49 EST
Sold For 150
Sale No: 0821
Lot No: 1042
Symbol: e
1941 (Mar) German stationery card (father writing to daughter) with additional unoverprinted franking sent from occupied Krotoszyn to Novouzienskij Selsoviet in Kazakhstan, with Alma-Ata transit and arrival pmks (20 Mar 41), red German censor cachet, scarce usage (Image)
