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Auction: 23110 - The Philatelic Collector's Series - e-Auction
Lot: 6952

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WWII - THE WILLIAM KACZYNSKI COLLECTION
The Collection served as the basis for "A Postal History of Refugees from the Nazis", published as "Fleeing From the Fuhrer", the History Press (2011), a copy of which is included. The Collection comprises hundreds of covers, stamps, ephemera, photographs, much written up for exhibition with a residue of backup research material. It divides into the following sections: Kindertransport Covers and ephemera (80) including a signed photo of Sir Nicholas Winton, the British diplomat in Prague who saved over 600 Jewish children.An important and rare picture postcard sent from the liner St. Louis on 27 May 1939, postmarked Deutsche Seepost, that had sailed from Hamburg to Cuba with 937 Jewish refugees aboard. Entry to the majority was refused and the St. Louis returned to Europe. Internment Mail / Enemy Aliens Covers from refugees in Canada, China, Cuba, Cyprus (2), Germany, Jamaica, Japan, Mauritius (5), Palestine, Portugal, Portuguese India, Switzerland, Thailand and USA (37). Internment Mail - Enemy Aliens, Isle of Man, Definitive collection of covers, letters, censor and camp cachets from Knockaloe Aliens Camp, ingoing and outgoing mail, with items from Hutchinson Camp, Peveril Camp, Mooragh, Onchan, Palace Camp, Metropole, Granville and Rushen Camps (40). Australia - covers from internment camps Hay (near Sydney), Tatura Camp (near Melbourne), various censor cachets and marks, ingoing and outgoing mail (12),China (Shanghai) (4), France (4), Germany. Holland, Westerbork Camp, India, Jamaica (2), Japan (2), Kenya, New Zealand, Palestine, S. Rhodesia, Tanganyika, Uganda, Huyton Liverpool, Kitchener Camp, Kent (5) (50). Refugee Organisations, Covers from HIAS, USA and others from Argentina, Portugal, France, Poland (40) with Red Cross covers included (80)
Concentration Camps . Covers from Auschwitz, Belsen, Brunn Ghetto, Buchenwald, Dachau, Flossenberg, Gross-Rosen, Ravensbruck, Sachsenhausen and labels from Theresienstadt (15). Displaced Persons Camps (25). Undercover Addresses
Covers to Lisbon, USA, Mauritius, England, including Bletchley Park Secrets Centre and Holland (30).Addressed to individuals' from enemy occupied territories and GB via forwarding agents, eg Thomas Cook. A comprehensive collection with much supporting and additional material, worthy of further research and viewing.



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Starting price
£21000