My friend Jill told me about a database newly on Ancestry "Registration of Foreigners and German Perscutees 1939-1947." So I looked up my guy "David Baumann" and he pops right up. From Frankfurt Au Main. Yes, right guy. It has a record marked Devisenstelle. I looked it up, it was a Foreign Exchange office set up by the Nazis often as a way to strip assets of emigrating Jews. Which is what likely happened as he fled Germany to The Netherlands with his family. But they were picked up, deported and killed one by one. There's an inventory number but to what? I can't figure out the date either. This is the stamp at the bottom (above). I thought it was a Nazi stamp but the Nazi eagles had flat horizontal wings. I think this stamp with the rounded eagle is the heraldic stamp of Frankfurt au Main. In any case, Germany is bad business.
So for right now, I kind of know what it maybe is but I have lots of questions.
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