Lot 224
Collection of Documents – Chaim Pozner – Head of the "Eretz-Israeli Office" in Geneva – 1940s
A collection of letters, telegrams and paper items from the estate of Chaim Pozner. Geneva, London, Basel, Istanbul, Tel-Aviv and other places, late 1930s to the late 1960s [most items from the 1940s]. German, English, Hebrew and French.
About 60 paper items, handwritten and printed, which belonged to Chaim Pozner (1899-1981), head of the "Eretz Israeli Office" in Geneva, one of the first to report news about the plan to exterminate European Jews.
Among the items:
* A typewritten letter from 1941, from Pozner to Edgar Salin, an economist Pozner's teacher, through whom the first reports of the Final Solution arrived. * A typewritten letter from 1942 from Chaim Barlas, head of "Vaad HaHatzala", who was active in Istanbul on behalf of the "Jewish Agency".
* A letter to Pozner from 1945, handwritten by Richard Lichtheim, representative of the "Jewish Agency" in Geneva who acted together with Pozner to publish the news.
* Ten notes written by hand (Hebrew), with information about informers and liaisons during the war, sources of the news about the extermination of Jews, various attempts to rescue Jews, and more (probably written after the war).
* A short note, typewritten, from Jaques van Harten, reporting the discovery of Adolf Hitler's art collection in a hiding place near Salzburg.
* Additional items, some related to Pozner's activity during the holocaust while others are related to his political activity, participation in conferences of the World Zionist Congress, and personal matters.
Total of about 60 items. Size and condition vary.
