A collection of over 250 World War II postal documents, representing evidence of the Holocaust, and created by philatelic researcher Ken Lawrence, has been acquired by a USA charitable organization, with the purpose of exhibiting it next year, at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center.

The award-winning collection is called “The Nazi Scourge: Postal Evidence of the Holocaust and the Devastation of Europe,” and is considered priceless as an undeniable evidence that the Holocaust was real, the owners of the collection believe.

The collection contains envelopes, postcards, letters, specially-designed postage stamps used exclusively by concentration camp inmates, Jewish ghetto residents and prisoners of war, as well as counterfeit Bank of England banknotes created by slave laborers during “Operation Bernhard.”

The Florence and Laurence Spungen Family Foundation, which acquired the items, will exhibit them at Holocaust and Educational venues around the world. In addition to that, they’ve also set up a website dedicated to these artifacts (www.SpungenFoundation.org).

According to the Florence and Laurence Spungen Family Foundation, among the items, a torn fragment of a hand-written Hebrew parchment from a Bible scroll represents once of the most heartbreaking artifacts and historical evidence of Nazi desecration in the entire collection. It appears that a German soldier used the Holy Scripture to wrap a parcel he mailed from Russia to Austria in 1942, as member of the Foundation’s Board of Directors Danny Spungen explained.

The estimated value of the artifacts is US$1 million, but as Danny Spungen pointed out in a statement, its educational value for future generations is simply incalculable.