Chain of Evidence: Holocaust Artifacts Bearing Witness
Explore arguably the largest collection of Holocaust era postal history in private hands. This traveling exhibit includes post cards, letters, scrip (money) issued in camps & ghettos, propaganda money & stamps created by the Axis Powers & Allies, passports, life-saving visas, Righteous Among Nations documents, and other related artifacts.
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December 31st, 1934
March 22, 1943
c. 1943
September 1, 1943
February 19, 1944
August 31, 1940
April 2, 1940
April 2, 1940
December 11, 1941
May 9, 1936
December 11, 1941
Signed by Chiune-Sempo Sugihara for Wulfson Hersz, August 31, 1940
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The Spungen Family Foundation is home to an extraordinary collection of Holocaust postal and currency artifacts, survivor stories, and educational resources. From rare items used in Nazi counterfeiting operations to first-hand accounts from survivors, our mission is to make these pieces of history accessible for students, educators, and researchers around the world.
Forbidden and Forged –
The Story of Lejb Fryd
Since the publication of Forging Secrets: Faces and Facts Inside the Nazi Operation Bernhard Scheme in 2022, the Spungen Foundation has continued to uncover more mysteries and information about the counterfeiting operation. This past autumn, we discovered a post card (still unresearched, at the time) in the Spungen Foundation postal collection with an incredible connection to Operation Bernhard.
