95th Holyland Postal Bid Sale

LODZ - LODSCH - LITZMANNSTADT (1915 - 1946) Fascinating collection of 13 cards and covers which document and illustrate some of the history and fate of one of Poland's largest cities and site of its notorious Ghetto during the Nazi occupation. Included are: (1) registered cover during World War One, bearing German overprinted stamps (Russisch-Polen), processed by the German Censorship office in Posen, also two postal cards with similar ovpt on indicia & marking (2) three pre-World War Two mail (pmkd 1931, 1937, and 1939), highlighted by an official preprinted envelope Deutsches Konsulat Lodz, postmarked Berlin, 27.3.37, stamped "free consular mail" "via Foreign Office" (addressed to organization responsible for German Military Grave maintenance) [note: 1931 depicts a souvenir medal, 1939 is only front of cover] (3) two unaddressed German Postal Stationery cards, postmarked with the now Germanized town name LODSCH 7.1.1940 and 31.3.1940, and different commemorative cancels, (4) three unaddressed cards, now with the renamed LITZMANNSTADT cancels 19.3.41., 20.4.41., 13.6.42., all with special cancels, and a used portion of a postal receipt postmarked "Zweigpostamt Struham - Litzmannstadt, 28 Juni 1941 (5) postwar registered airmail, cancelled LODZ Nov 46., addressed to Galveston, Texas, backstamped Washington, D.C., Nov 25, 1946- Air Mail Field Tour 1, and Galveston, Tex. Nov 26, 1946. (6), copies of pages 110 to 137 from 1964 RUCH specialized catalog (in Polish), dealing with Litzmannstadt Ghetto, plus reprint of STAMPS July 16, 1960 article "How Lodz Became Litzmannstadt " by Edward Nowak, Sr.