Set of dispatches addressed to Brigadier General Bernard Stanislaw Mond [1940-1943].

1940-43 set of mail addressed to Brigadier General Bernard Stanislaw Mond.

Among others, forms from oflags, a card from an interned soldier in Hungary, a receipt for a package from the USA.

Bernard Stanislaw Mond was a fully assimilated Pole of Jewish origin, a practicing Catholic. He was born in 1887 in Ukraine. In 1907 he graduated from the 8th grade Real Gymnasium in Brody. From 1905 he was a member of the Independence Organization of Polish Youth. In 1907-1908 he did one-year compulsory service in the Austro-Hungarian Army. On August 1, 1914 he was mobilized to the c. and k. infantry regiment No. 95 in Lviv. From May to October 1921 he was commander of the City of Vilna. In the September campaign he commanded the 6th Infantry Division. He defended the "Pszczyna Corridor," which was being attacked by the German 5th Armored Division. On September 20, 1939, he and the division laid down their arms after the First Battle of Tomaszow Lubelski. In German captivity in oflags VII Murnau, IV B Konigstein and VI B Dössel, VIIIE Johannisbrunn.