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Worldwide Stamps and Covers POLAND Polish Prisoners of War in the Soviet Union
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)
Est.$150
Opening US$ 170.00
Sold...US$ 170.00
Closed..Aug-11-2021, 11:30:28 EST
Sold For 170
POLAND Polish Deportees to Soviet Asia and Siberia
Sale No: 0821
Lot No: 1043
Symbol: e
Cat No: Collection
1939-45 collection of 107 items, written-up on pages, mostly correspondence to and from Polish deportees in the Soviet Union, variety of postal cards sent in 1940-45 to German Occupied Poland, also to Kazakhstan, from Siberia, one sent from Tokyo by the military attache to Gieorgiewka (Kazakhstan), where Poles were deported by the Soviets, some to the Polish Red Cross, registered mail from Nowgorodek (Belarus) to Lublin, 1940 cover from Serniki to a POW Stalag in Germany, mail from Vilnius to Semipalatinsk, cards sent from Soviet Labor camps (Rowne in Western Ukraine to Piaseczno, Dubno, Rodatycz, etc.), 1945 postcard from Teheran to Aktyubinsk, also a registered cover from England to Kazakhstan, some military mail, telegrams, Fieldpost mail, great variety of censor markings (Polish, German, Russian), Polish Red Cross card sent in 1948 informing the family that the POW died in Kozielsk of cancer (the prisoner Lt. Nowak was murdered in Katyn), another form sent in 1953 to the village of Ptaki, informing the family that the Polish POW died in a Soviet Camp, plus others. Condition varies, as should be expected, but overall a fascinating chronicle of suffering inflicted on the Polish civilians and soldiers during the Soviet Occupation (Image)
Est.$2,500
Opening US$ 2,400.00
Sold...US$ 2,400.00
Closed..Aug-11-2021, 11:30:52 EST
Sold For 2400
Sale No: 0821
Lot No: 1044
Symbol: e
1944 (24 Feb) Iranian stationery card with Soviet P.O. Box 6 and additional printed "receipt" information, addressed to Kellerowsk Settlement in Kazakhstan (where Polish families were deported), Persian-English-Soviet censor markings, Delegation of the Polish Red Cross in Teheran endorsement on back, uncommon destination (Image)
Est.$150
Opening US$ 160.00
Sold...US$ 160.00
Closed..Aug-11-2021, 11:31:17 EST
Sold For 160
POLAND Internment of Polish Soldiers in Hungary
Sale No: 0821
Lot No: 1045
Symbol: e
Cat No: Collection
1939-43 selection of 14 covers or cards, written-up on pages, including inter-camp mail, one from Rakoscsaba, through Nagymaros Camp, another from Domos to Lancut, Hungarian and German censor markings, cover from Kamorom to "Deutsche Okupation in Polen" Nowy Sacz, also a cover to Olszowka, cards from Eger, Perenye to Polish Red Cross in Krakow, plus many others (the Hungarian government opened the country's borders for Polish refugees on 17th September 1939 and 70-90 thousand soldiers and civilians entered Hungary, with various internment camps still remaining until 1944) (Image)
Est.$750
Opening US$ 700.00
Closed..Aug-11-2021, 11:31:39 EST
Sold For 0
POLAND Internment of Polish Soldiers in Romania
Sale No: 0821
Lot No: 1046
Symbol: e
Cat No: Collection
1939-41 correspondence of 11 covers or cards between a Polish officer (Army doctor Stanislaw Bogucki), interned in Romania and his wife and sons in Krakow. He was transferred from Camp to Camp and finally handed over to the Germans in 1941, with the last item in this lot being a letter from Oflag VI/B Dussel Warburg. The first postcard dated November 1939 was from a Camp in Bals, next two cards from Baile Govora, others from Targu Jiu and Calimanesti Camp, various censor markings, fascinating group (Image)
Est.$500
Opening US$ 1,100.00
Sold...US$ 1,100.00
Closed..Aug-11-2021, 11:31:52 EST
Sold For 1100
Sale No: 0821
Lot No: 1047
Symbol: e
Cat No: Collection
1939-41 collection of 26 covers or cards described on pages, with items from Dragasani, Calimanesti, Targu-Ju, Targoviste, Cernauti, Braila, Craiova, Calarasi, Bals, Comisani, Babadag, Tulcea Camps, to German Occupied Poland, Polish Red Cross, Vichy France, Budapest, Vilnius and Switzerland (addressed to Morges, where museum of Ignace Paderewski was later located), variety of censor markings, both German and Romanian, mixed condition, rare group (Image)
Est.$1,000
Opening US$ 950.00
Sold...US$ 950.00
Closed..Aug-11-2021, 11:32:15 EST
Sold For 950
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)
Est.$300
Opening US$ 290.00
Closed..Aug-11-2021, 11:32:46 EST
Sold For 0
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)
Est.$300
Opening US$ 290.00
Closed..Aug-11-2021, 11:33:27 EST
Sold For 0
POLAND Internment of Polish Soldiers in Switzerlan
Sale No: 0821
Lot No: 1053
Symbol: *be
1940 two perforated souvenir sheets, one bilingual Polish & French inscriptions, the other French only, also unused stationery card with pre-printed franking and unaddressed cover with Lauterbrunner military camp cachet, v.f. (Image)
Est.$150
Opening US$ 150.00
Sold...US$ 150.00
Closed..Aug-11-2021, 11:33:48 EST
Sold For 150
Sale No: 0821
Lot No: 1054
Symbol: e
1940 two registered covers, each headed "Comite International de la Croix-Rouge Geneve", sent from Geneva (17 June and 3 October), one addressed to Pawliszczew-Bor, the other to Starobielsk, each to enquire about Polish Prisoners of War, Capt. Jan Ursyn Zamarajew and Capt. Mieczyslaw Wojciechowski, with Moscow and Smolensk arrival markings, returned ("Inconnu" and "Parti" handstamps), some cover mending, fine-v.f. Both of the addressees were murdered by NKVD (After the Katyn massacre April-May 1940, most of the correspondence to Starobielsk, Kozielsk and Ostaszkow Prisoner of War Camps was destroyed by NKVD. Registered mail was usually returned to senders, including Red Cross and other institutions, without explanation) (Image)
Est.$500
Opening US$ 450.00
Closed..Aug-11-2021, 11:34:09 EST
Sold For 0
Sale No: 0821
Lot No: 1055
Symbol: e
Cat No: Collection
1940-45 selection of 10 covers, mostly free-franked and addressed to the Red Cross in Geneva, most bearing cachets of YMCA and "Service d'aide aux Internes Militaire en Suisse" Internment Camps on Switzerland, sent from Fehraltord, Tessin, Semione, Palagnedra, Giswil, De Cevio, Sursee, Fribourg, San Carlo-Val Bavona and Affeltrangen, fine (during their internment in Switzerland, Polish soldiers built over 450 kilometers of roads, dug canals and built bridges. Apart from working for the Swiss economy, the soldiers were obliged to defend the Swiss Confederation in case of German invasion) (Image)
Est.$500
Opening US$ 450.00
Closed..Aug-11-2021, 11:34:34 EST
Sold For 0
Sale No: 0821
Lot No: 1056
Symbol: e
1941 postcard from Lt.Krzyzanowski in Huttwil Internment Camp, showing "Bewachungstruppen Feldpost" (Border Guards Fieldpost) free-frank cachet, addressed to Lt. Zbigniew Ziemski, Polish forces in Perth, Scotland, with bilingual cachet "H.Q.1st Polish Parachute Brigade" (Polish Eagle), fine and scarce usage (Image)
Est.$150
Opening US$ 140.00
Closed..Aug-11-2021, 11:34:48 EST
Sold For 0
Sale No: 0821
Lot No: 1057
Symbol: e
1941-43 eight covers or cards to and from University Level Camps, one registered from Carnoustie (Scotland), with Polish Army in Great Britain 75gr used in combination with 8p George VI franking, sent to Winterthur, opened by British and Swiss censors, also registered cover from German Occupied Warszawa, opened by German and Swiss censors, others from "Camp d'Internement Militaire Universitaire Fribourg" and Winterthur to Basel and Geneva (one addressed to "Service d'Aide intellectuelle aux Prisonniers de guerre B.I.E.", etc. (the capitulation by the French left the Polish troops in a quandary. Units continued to fight despite Petain's call for armistice and demobilization. Polish units were cut off by the retreat and many decided to sneak around German strongholds to avoid capture. Brigadier-General Bronislaw Prugar-Kietling defended the Belfort area with 545 senior officers, 2,373 officers and 12,912 troops. The First Division fought on until the 18th June and the 2nd Division decided to escape across the border into Switzerland, as the first German tanks overran the remains of the Franco-Polish defenses. At the border the Polish soldiers abandoned their arms and became interned under the control and protection of General Henri Guisan. The interned Poles were encouraged to return to their studies and many took this option. The Universities of Fribourg and Zurich together with the HEC at St. Gallen and a Lycee camp at Wetzikon provided a wide variety of courses, particularly in the sciences and math. For others, the farms, mines and forests provided work. Some work details were based in the mountains building roads, bridges and trails that are still in use today) (Image)
Est.$250
Opening US$ 250.00
Sold...US$ 250.00
Closed..Aug-11-2021, 11:35:02 EST
Sold For 250
POLAND Polish Army in the Soviet Union
Sale No: 0821
Lot No: 1058
Symbol: P
1941 50k brown "Dojdziemy" issue, proof sheetlet of four, unused without gum, v.f., signed Schmutz (Image)
Est.$500
Opening US$ 0.00
Closed..Aug-11-2021, 23:59:00 EST
Sold For 0
POLAND Generalgouvernement - WWII German Occupatio
Sale No: 0821
Lot No: 1059
Symbol: ***b
Cat No: N17-29
1939 Deutsche Post Osten 6gr-2zl surcharges, sheets of 100, hinged in several places, affecting about 10 sets, others n.h., fine-v.f. (Mi.1-13) cat. €3340 (Cat No. N17-29) (Image)
Cat. €3340, Est.$750
Opening US$ 1,300.00
Sold...US$ 1,300.00
Closed..Aug-11-2021, 11:35:27 EST
Sold For 1300
Sale No: 0821
Lot No: 1060
Symbol: **b
Cat No: N76/96 var.
