1939 Postcards from Czechoslovakia to Gustav Munz in Vienna (March) or Scotland (June), both from his cousin; 1938 Rumania postcard to Bertha Munz in Vienna and 1947 registered cover from Rumania to Bertha Muenz at P.O. Box 506, Lisbon, redirected with a yellow label to London and posted with a G.B 2½d (T.C/S perfin), handstamped oval "THOS COOK & SON LTD / BERKELEY ST., W.1". Also letters and documents concerning the Munz family including Gustav Munz certificate of service in the German army in WW1, 1939 (May) document and letter issued in Vienna concerning emigration of Gustav and Bertha to England, etc. (8). Photo on Page 88. (Image1)

1939-45 Covers (most with letters) and cards to Hans or Erna Freudenheim in London, posted from Switzerland (18) Belgium (2), France (2) Sweden or Holland, also a 1946 letter from a Concentration Camp survivor written at Regensburg with a stampless cover bearing a red London S.W1 Paid datestamp, and various additional letters without envelopes. The Sweden letter reports receiving a letter from an aunt arrested by the Gestapo and held in a Concentration Camp. An interesting correspondence. (25+).

Holland / Belgium / Switzerland / Portugal. 1939-44 Covers and cards with 1939 (Nov 13) cover posted within Switzerland to "Jakub Jakubowicz No. 239, Camp de Refugies de Buren" with boxed "Censure"; 1940 card from Holland to USA written in Hebrew; 1943 Holland 5c postcard from Westerbork Concentration Camp; 1944 Portugal cards from refugees at Hotel Tivoli, Lisbon, or "c/o Committee for Jewish Refugees" at Caldas da Rainha (censored in Bermuda); and 1944 (Dec 1) Belgium card from Brussels to USA with interesting message "we had a terrible time, had to hide during a long time which did not impede the Gestapo making Koete prisoner during 3 weeks at the famous Malines Camp. Fortunately I succeeded to get her liberated as a nurse, whereupon she worked at the Jewish hospital in Brussels ....". (6).

Eastern Europe. 1939-45 Covers and cards with 1939 (July 8) cover from London to Warsaw returned unknown, 1941 (July 22) Poland 30g postcard from Warsaw to Alfred Schwarzbaum, Lausanne (undercover address for Jews) with tiny boxed "JUDENRAT / WARSCHAU" cachet, 1943-44 postcards from Prague to Pension Beha in Lugano (3), and 1945 registered cover from Russia to G.B. (6).

Australia. 1941-42 Covers from Jewish Internees in Tatura Camp 2, stampless (7) or franked 2½d (4), including covers to The Zionist Federation for Australia and New Zealand (4) or Australia Jewish Welfare Society (5), two from Rabbis, and a cover from G.B to No. 2 Internment Camp with large violet "INTERNMENT CAMP / TATURA, VIC."; 1941 air mail postcards from No. 7 Camp at Hay franked 2/9 to G.B (2); lettersheet franked 1/6 to Palestine with "PERMISSION / GRANTED" cachet and a cover to The Society of Friends in Sydney franked 4d both from No.8 Camp at Hay. (15).

Australia. 1940-45 Covers and cards, airgraph and a Red Cross message form with 1940 covers from Singapore to the Jewish Refugee Relief Committee in Melbourne (2, one from the Singapore J.R.R.C); 1942 cover from The Bureau of Jewish Affairs in Sydney to The American Academy for Jewish Research; 1943 Australian Red Cross message service form from Bratislava Jewish Ghetto in Slovakia to "Fritz Guttenberg, c/o Chief Field Censor, L.H.Q, Australia" (an ex 'Dunera' Internee); 1945 (Sep 14) 2d postcard uprated 7d to the Red Cross in Geneva with "O.A.T" cachet, forwarding a message to his father in Budapest (recently returned from deportation - "read your name on list of survivors from Buchenwald ...."); also a cover from a refugee in New Zealand, etc. (8).

Bermuda. 1942 (July 25) Printed shipping line envelope to France, from A. Winnikow on the S.S "Nyassa", posted at Hamilton franked 2/-, censor seal and Lisbon backstamp. An unusual cover from a Jewish evacuee ship.

Canada. 1939-42 Covers comprising 1939 covers from Holland to a refugee at Toronto Y.M.C.A (3); 1941 stampless cover from Austria to Internee Camp A; covers from the refugee camps at Sherbrooke (5) or Ile aux Noise, or from Internment Camp N. (11).

China. 1940-48 Covers and cards from refugees in Shanghai (15) or Hankow, three registered, wartime covers sent within China or to Germany (3) or USA (8), post-war covers to Austria, USA, G.B or Palestine. Three covers from Else Baum to Henrietta Lechner in Chicago, four covers or cards to Fritz Weissenberg in New York. (16).

China. 1939-47 Covers from P.O. Box 1425, Shanghai, the undercover address of the Jewish Aid Organisation HIAS, comprising 1939 cover registered to the HICEM office in Paris, 1944 cover from "Hugo Wolf, German emigrant, c/o Jewish Central Information Bureau HICEM, G.P.O.B 1425" registered to Switzerland, and 1947 cover to HIAS office in San Francisco with Chinese HIAS cachet. (3).

China. 1939-41 Covers and cards from Germany to Jewish refugees in Shanghai, three from Jewish senders with "Israel" or "Sara" added to their name. Seven endorsed via Siberia, various P.O Box addresses including P.O Box 1131 (2, Jewish Refugee Centre) and other possible undercover addresses. (9).

China. 1940-46 Covers and a card to Jewish refugees in Shanghai, comprising 1940 picture postcard from Samobor, Yugoslavia, to "Friedrich Fusth, c/o Jewish Refugee Centre 1, P.O Box 1137, Shanghai" with red crayon "SS"; 1941 cover from Palestine; 1942 registered cover from Tokyo with six Japanese stamps and censor label; and 1946 cover from Austria to Chang Yang Lu Camp. (4).

China / Hong Kong. 1941 (June 23) Cover from a Jewish refugee in USA, to "Max Levinsson, P.O.B 1131, Shanghai" (undercover address for the Jewish Refugee Centre), green double ring "AIR TRANSIT / 5" applied in Hong Kong, partly covered by blue "G R / OPENED BY CENSOR / HONG KONG" seal tied by boxed "21" and Chinese censor, also backstamped boxed "60". Photo on Page 88. (Image1)

France - Camp de Gurs. 1939-41 Covers (6, two registered) and a stampless forces postcard all from Jewish internees in Camp de Gurs with the camp c.d.s, three with oval camp censor cachets, one to another prisoner in Camp 8 at Argeles-sur-Mer, others to France, Holland, USA (2), Brazil or Uruguay, the 1942 registered cover to Uruguay held by the British censor until 1946 when delivery was attempted but unclaimed and returned to France. (7).

France & Colonies. 1940-45 Covers and cards from Jewish refugees in unoccupied France (7), one 1945 cover posted at Lavaur with printed "Maison du Prisonnier, Centre D'Entraide des Prisonniers de Guerres repatries, deportes et leur famille du Canton de Lavaur"; 1941-47 card from G.B and cover from USA, the latter returned handstamped "SERVICE SUSPENDED / RETURN TO SENDER"; 1941 stampless cover from Camp Djelfa, Algeria, to the Red Cross with camp censor cachet; and 1942 cover from USA to a female internee in Camp Sidi el Ayachi at Azemour, Morocco, censored in Bermuda. (11).

France. 1941-42 Covers and a card from Camp D'Argeles-sur-Mer with camp c.d.s and censor cachet, Camp de Recebedou or Camp de St. Cyprien with camp censor cachets, postcard from Paris to Camp du Vernet with camp censor, or from G.B to Camp-de-Noe (censor cachet) or Camp Les Milles. (6).

Germany / Austria. 1940-48 Covers including wartime covers from Jews (3); post-war covers from or to Displaced Persons Camps in Germany (6) or Jewish Camp at Halkein in Austria; 1944 stampless cover from USA to a British civilian internee at Ilag Kreuzberg; 1945 (Feb 2) cover from Norway to a female prisoner in Ravensbruck Concentration Camp with camp censor cachet, stamp removed by the censor, etc., also some ephemera. (17).

G.B - Kitchener Camp. 1939-40 Covers or cards from Austria, Rumania (2), USA or Palestine to refugees at Kitchener Camp, Richborough, Kent. Also a 1939 Belgian postcard posted from Ostende to Berlin with return address of Kitchener Camp. (6).

G.B - Kitchener Camp. 1939 Covers (8, five with enclosed letters) and a postcard from Austria (4), Belgium (4) or G.B all to Samuel Neuman in Kitchener Camp. (9).

G.B. 1938-47 Covers including cover from Rumania to "The Zionist Organisation for Mr A. Ben Gurion" in London; Germany to the "Movement for the Care of Children from Germany" (4); covers from Jewish refugees (6, one to Belgium with "NO SERVICE / RETURN TO SENDER") or to refugees in G.B (5); covers from soldiers in the Jewish Brigade in the British Army (8), etc. (26).

G.B. 1940 Postcards (4) and covers (2) from Margot or Steve Nathan in London to their brother Max in USA, the cards all referring to messages to or from their parents in Germany forwarded via Max in the USA, interesting references to an undercover message service to Germany. (6).

G.B - Internee Mail. 1939-40 Lettersheets from Hans Geismar (6) or G. Schoenberg in Huyton Camp, and a lettersheet from York Camp all with red Official Paid datestamps; postcard to Siegfried Rosenzweig in Huyton Camp; and a cover to Gustav Jacoby, Internment Camp 23. (10).

G.B - Isle of Man. 1939-43 Covers and cards to Jewish refugees interned in the Isle of Man (11), five covers sent to Dr Hans Bach at Onchan Camp, others to Central Promenade Camp, P Camp (with oval "Headquarters, Peel" cachet), Germany to "Shore House, Shore Rd, Port Erin" or to "Women Internment Camp, Hotel Ballaqueeney, Port St. Mary" (both with boxed "WOMEN'S / INTERNMENT CAMP / ISLE -OF-MAN"), or postcards from Switzerland to Y Camp (2, stamps removed). (11).

G.B - Isle of Man. 1940 Lettersheets from Kurt Schlesinger in Central Promenade Camp to Berta Schlesinger in London, or from Poldi Schlesinger in Mooragh Camp to Rosa Schlesinger in London (2), these two handstamped "MOORAGH INTERNMENT CAMP", all with red Official Paid c.d.s. Also a cover from London to Kurt Schlesinger in Central Promenade Camp, and photocopies of various letters and documents showing the Schlesinger family escaped from Austria to England in June 1939. (4).

G.B - Isle of Man. 1940-47 Covers and cards, Red Cross forms and letters concerning Nurse Frieda Donat, a Czech refugee whose family were all killed by the Nazis, comprising 1940 (May) cover from F. Donat in Margate to Holland but returned with "NO SERVICE / RETURN TO SENDER"; 1940 (Dec.) cover to Nurse Donat, Women's Internment Camp, Port St. Mary; 1941 postcard from Switzerland to the Internment Camp, redirected to Shropshire, with "WOMEN'S / INTERNMENT CAMP / ISLE-OF-MAN"; Red Cross message forms sent to and from relatives in Czechoslovakia (3), etc. (9).