POLAND Internment of Polish Soldiers during World War II - Stamp Auctions
 Lot 1053 - POLAND Internment of Polish Soldiers during World War II - Cherrystone Auctions U.S. & Worldwide Stamps & Postal History1939-41 selection of covers and cards, including Polish POWs in camps in Romania (3), Hungary (3), card from Lithuania sent in 1941 to Occupied Plonsk, 1946 commemorative card from Italy, additional 18 cards Polish WWI Legions, cover from "Mission Militaire Franco-Polonaise en Italie", sent in 1919 to Krakow, plus a few additional items, including mail from Russian Occupied Poland in 1939, mixed condition, mostly fine or better Cherrystone Auctions U.S. & Worldwide Stamps & Postal HistoryPOLAND Internment of Polish Soldiers during World War II |
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 Lot 1054 - POLAND Internment of Polish Soldiers during World War II - Cherrystone Auctions U.S. & Worldwide Stamps & Postal History1941 (28 Oct) 1fr stationery card from Roanne, France to German occupied Lublin, with red censor handstamp, sent by a Polish soldier (with French Army), writing from a military hospital located in Free France. The sender "Aspirant" (cadet) Gorski, arrived with a transport of sick Prisoners of War. He probably escaped from Poland to France and joined the French Army, captured by the Germans and released due to illness or injury to the Vichy authorities. Roanne Railroad station was the final destination for transports carrying French POWs and Marshall Petain himself visited Roanne to greet the arriving POWs on several occasions. A rare historical item Cherrystone Auctions U.S. & Worldwide Stamps & Postal HistoryPOLAND Internment of Polish Soldiers during World War II |
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 Lot 767 - POLAND Internment of Polish Soldiers during World War II - Cherrystone Auctions U.S. & Worldwide Stamps & Postal History1940 selection of 10 covers or cards from Polish Internees in Switzerland, various Camps, two specially printed stationery cards, one with bilingual label, most addressed within Switzerland, one to Lisbon, another to Germany, various censor markings, etc., also three unused stationery cards, one showing "Timrbe" (instead of "Timbre") error in inscription, fine and scarce group Cherrystone Auctions U.S. & Worldwide Stamps & Postal HistoryPOLAND Internment of Polish Soldiers during World War II |
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 Lot 768 - POLAND Internment of Polish Soldiers during World War II - Cherrystone Auctions U.S. & Worldwide Stamps & Postal History1941 letter from Comisani Camp with "Romanian Ministry of National Defense Camp for Interned Poles Comisani" handstamp in green, sent to a Polish serviceman in Targu-Jiu Camp; addressee not recorded (possibly escaped), annotated in Polish "not known in soldiers' camp", dated July 14, 1941, with "Passed by Censor No.156", apparently now in British controlled Palestine, Latrun camp, where Polish Carpathian brigade was being formed, showing bilingual "Interned Belligerent", boxed "Free of Charge" and censor label, fine and rare cover, possibly the only recorded correspondence from Romanian internment Camp after February 12, 1941 Cherrystone Auctions U.S. & Worldwide Stamps & Postal HistoryPOLAND Internment of Polish Soldiers during World War II |
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 Lot 763 - POLAND Internment of Polish Soldiers during World War II - Cherrystone Auctions U.S. & Worldwide Stamps & Postal History1939-41 (After the German (1 Sep 1939) and Soviet (17 Sep) invasions, the government and 20,000 Polish military crossed the southern border into Romania. The soldiers and members of government were interned in various places from Banat through to Wallachia, and as far as Dobrogea. In Campulung-Muscel, an internment camp for Polish soldiers existed from September 1939 to March 1940. The Commander in Chief of the Polish army, Marshal Edward Smigly-Rydz was lodged in the nearby town of Dragoslavele), collection of 25 covers, cards and one telegram, written-up on pages, used October 2, 1939 to German occupied Poland, various red cross and censor markings, scarce "Deutsches Okupationsgebiet Osten Dienstpost" handstamps in red, registered cover from Targoviste camp, officers' camp in Targu-Jiu, also a card from Constanto to the Targo-Jiu camp, others from Babadag Camp to Vilnius, Braila Camp to Biezanow, card from Targu-Jiu camp to POW Oflag Xa in Germany, cover and card from Polish Officers' Camp in Calimansti; cover from Russian occupied Poland, sent via Odessa to a military hospital in Constanta; two covers from German Occupied Poland to camps in Romania; censored cover from Warszawa to Calimanesti Camp, sent Feb 11, 1941, but returned to sender, as the camp was already liquidated. An interesting collection Cherrystone Auctions U.S. & Worldwide Stamps & Postal HistoryPOLAND Internment of Polish Soldiers during World War II |
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 Lot 769 - POLAND Internment of Polish Soldiers during World War II - Cherrystone Auctions U.S. & Worldwide Stamps & Postal History1941 (24 May) Russian 20k stationery card canceled "Starobielsk Voroshilovgrad", sent by Jan Sulkowski, a Polish officer held in the NKVD Camp Starobielsk II, addressed to his wife in Suchotin, Kazakhstan, where families of Polish officers were deported. In addition, there is another 20k stationery card from Mrs Sulkowski in Suchotin to her husband in Starobielsk, showing departure and arrival pmks, considerable card wear, rare Cherrystone Auctions U.S. & Worldwide Stamps & Postal HistoryPOLAND Internment of Polish Soldiers during World War II |
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 Lot 764 - POLAND Internment of Polish Soldiers during World War II - Cherrystone Auctions U.S. & Worldwide Stamps & Postal History1939-41 Polish Internees/POWs in Hungary, selection of 10 covers or cards from various camps, including Petlenpuszta, Magyarova, Ipoltszalka, Esztergom Tabor, Sarvar, Mosdos, Nagyncek, Gyujto and Vamosmikola, addressed to German Occupied Poland, also to Polish Red Cross in Vichy, France, etc., one incoming card from Tarnow to Tapioszele "Selecta" in Hungary (temporary housing from Polish POWs) Cherrystone Auctions U.S. & Worldwide Stamps & Postal HistoryPOLAND Internment of Polish Soldiers during World War II |
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 Lot 770 - POLAND Internment of Polish Soldiers during World War II - Cherrystone Auctions U.S. & Worldwide Stamps & Postal History1941 two Soviet stationery cards, one from Jercewo (March 30) to Belarus, with Post Office Box 233/17-1m Railway Construction Labor Camp; the other from Semigorod to Stalingrad, some toning, fine and scarce pair of cards Cherrystone Auctions U.S. & Worldwide Stamps & Postal HistoryPOLAND Internment of Polish Soldiers during World War II |
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 Lot 765 - POLAND Internment of Polish Soldiers during World War II - Cherrystone Auctions U.S. & Worldwide Stamps & Postal History1940 (Mar) card from German-occupied Poland to Bartlomiej Bobonski in Romanian Targu-Jiu camp, also another card sent in August 1943 to the same individual, this time a POW in Stalag VID, Dortmund, Germany (under the order of February 12, 1941, Polish soldiers interned in Romania were handed over to the Germans) Cherrystone Auctions U.S. & Worldwide Stamps & Postal HistoryPOLAND Internment of Polish Soldiers during World War II |
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 Lot 766 - POLAND Internment of Polish Soldiers during World War II - Cherrystone Auctions U.S. & Worldwide Stamps & Postal History1940 Polish Internees in Switzerland, two specially prepared souvenir sheets, with military handstamps, fine-v.f. Cherrystone Auctions U.S. & Worldwide Stamps & Postal HistoryPOLAND Internment of Polish Soldiers during World War II |
