I plan on selling this on the estand, but wanted to share it first for the WAF record.
I posted this document over in the Wehrpass and Soldbuch Forum, probably the wrong place due to no response over a period of time so I am sharing one more time. There are more photos that chronicle the events on the link below:
http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...d.php?t=456564
I dug out while we were moving and snapped some photos before boxing it up again to move. Pinkas Bellmann was a Stateless Jew from Odessa, Ukraine. It does not ID him as Jewish, but both first and last names are of Jewish decent. The book details his process of getting permission from German Police, the US Consulate in Vienna and Italian Consulate in Genoa in October and November 1939.
It shows his departure stamps from Germany (Austria to Italy). The US Consulate shows his Immigrant ID number along with the embossed State Department stamp and departure stamp from Genoa, Italy on 18 November 1939 bound for New York City.
I haven't found him in the USA, but how he managed to get out must be quite a story escaping Germany early in the war. The US was not exactly throwing open it's doors at this time. There must be more to this.
I posted this document over in the Wehrpass and Soldbuch Forum, probably the wrong place due to no response over a period of time so I am sharing one more time. There are more photos that chronicle the events on the link below:
http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...d.php?t=456564
I dug out while we were moving and snapped some photos before boxing it up again to move. Pinkas Bellmann was a Stateless Jew from Odessa, Ukraine. It does not ID him as Jewish, but both first and last names are of Jewish decent. The book details his process of getting permission from German Police, the US Consulate in Vienna and Italian Consulate in Genoa in October and November 1939.
It shows his departure stamps from Germany (Austria to Italy). The US Consulate shows his Immigrant ID number along with the embossed State Department stamp and departure stamp from Genoa, Italy on 18 November 1939 bound for New York City.
I haven't found him in the USA, but how he managed to get out must be quite a story escaping Germany early in the war. The US was not exactly throwing open it's doors at this time. There must be more to this.
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