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Lot #507
GERMAN WORLD WAR II OCCUPATION ISSUES Concentration Camp Mail
1940-44 France, Concentration Camps and Internment Camps, collection of 24 covers, cards and documents, sent from Drancy, Camp de Gurs, Camp de Brens, Camp de Milles, Recebedou, Camp de Noe, Camp de Rivesaltes, Camp de St.Paul D'Eyjeaux, also a cover from an internee at Neusalza-Spremberg, most sent to International Red Cross in Geneva, variety of censor markings and Camp cachets, rare group
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$2,300.00
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Lot #508
GERMAN WORLD WAR II OCCUPATION ISSUES Concentration Camp Mail
1941 (19 Sep) Camp de Vernet, 80c Iris French postal card addressed to Paris, with "Camp de Concentration Vernet-D'Ariege / Le Vaugemastre" cachet, sent from Pamiers/Ariege, handstamped "Inadmis" (inadmissible), also "Controle au camp du Vernet D'Ariege" censor cachet on back (Le Vernet Internment Camp, or Camp Vernet, was a concentration camp in the French Pyrenees. It was used during the Spanish Civil War, first for Republican refugees and others of the International Brigades, under the legitimate French government and then, as of May-June 1940, under the Vichy government after German occupation. Starting in 1940, the camp was used to imprison members of the resistance and opponents of the Hitler, Mussolini and Petain regimes. From 1942 until June 1944, it was used as a holding camp for Jewish families awaiting deportation to other camps)
Envelope
$230.00
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