Lot 487
Appeal Issued by the Union of Surviving Rabbis and Rebbes in Poland, 1946
Appeal! (Please print this appeal in your newspaper so as to attract the readers' attention). Leaf issued by the presidency and management of the Union of surviving rabbis and rebbes in Poland. Lodz, July 1943.
"After destruction caused by this horrible war surviving rabbis and rebbes gathered most of them returned from Russia and many others who survived gas chambers and established 'the union of surviving rabbis in Poland', centered in Lodz". The appeal continues: "..in spite of the fact that the government protects us as it protects other citizens, we experience suppressed hatred and prosecutions around us and we feel that we cannot stay here. We therefore ask you to try and help us reach our Holy Land and help those who wish to leave to reach other countries we protest and call: do not abandon the Polish Jews since Poland was the heart and brain of the Jewish people!" Signed (in print) rebbes: Alter Ya'akov Meir, Yehiel Yehoshua Rabinovitch, Shalom Yehezkel Shraga Halberstam, Israel Yerahmiel Sekala, and others. Leaf 30.5 cm. Good condition.
