Gesundheits Abteilung Mai 1940 – 3 Marz 1942, Litzmannstadt-Getto [Health Department, May 1940 to March 3 1942, Lodz Ghetto].
51 Black and white photographs, some of them a photo montage,[possibly by the photographers Henrik Ross, head of the statistics department of the Lodz Ghetto Judenrat and Mendel Grossman, the Jewish photographers of the ghetto] Mounted on album leaves. Documenting the activity of the Jewish health system in the Lodz ghetto. It seems that the album was prepared for the Judenrat , for presentation to the Germans as proof of the normal life led in the ghetto, and as a means of persuasion against the deportation of Jews from the ghetto. The photographs in this album are original photographs of a larger album in "Yad Vashem". The album is dated unlike the large album in "Yad Vashem". (see attached material).
The photographs show an ex-ray department, advanced medical tools, milk distribution, the electro-therapeutic institute, activity of Jewish pharmacies (in one photograph is seen Haim Rumkowsky, chairman of the Judenrat in the Lodz Ghetto), tables of statistical data, emergency medicine, maintaining sanitary conditions, and more. Photographs 18X13 cm. Good condition. Album 24X16.5 cm in original cloth binding, in a new cardboard box. For more details and articles about the album, see attached material. Attached: Four volumes of the "chronika shel Geto Lodz" / translated and commented by Aryeh Ben Menachem, Yosef Rab. (Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, 1986-1989).

Handwritten notebook. On the first page: Terezin, "1942-1943". Czech.
Various inscriptions and texts in pencil and in pen, probably citations from books. [12] leaves, 25 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, detached leaves and cover.

20 documents describing the attempts of the World Agudat Yisrael and Swiss Jewish organizations to save the Jews of Hungary and Czechoslovakia before and during the Holocaust. Hebrew, German, Czech and English.
Amongst them: Letters by Dr. Ya'akov Griffel, an Agudat Yisrael representative in Constantinople, who took care of transit visas to Turkey; a letter by Ludwig [Yehuda Leib] Kastner, a former Czech businessman who worked together with Griffel, addressed to the Jerusalem Agudat Yisrael Management; letters from Agudat Yisrael in Bratislava and London; three copies of telegrams in English about saving rabbis (including a list of names) requesting to issue them certificates to bring them to Eretz Yisrael; three leaves with lists of names "from Terezin to Slovakia until the end of 1944"; a handwritten protocol which states, "Va'ad Hatzala of 250 Czech survivors that were granted aliya permits", and other documents. For additional details about the attempts of Agudat Yisrael to save Jews and its unique cooperation with the Revisionist Movement, see the attached article by Yehudit Tidor-Baumel. Varied size and condition.

The Tragedy of Slovak Jewry – photographs and documents, published by the Federation of the Bratislava Communities Documentation Project. [Bratislava, 1949].
Book containing copies of documents and photographs documenting the persecutions endured by Slovak Jewry throughout WWII. Includes a separate booklet with an English and Hebrew foreword. Good condition. Tears on the cover. Several detached sheets.

In the Path of Suffering to the Homeland. Published by “Ha-Brycha”, 1945-1948.
Important Holocaust-related book with dozens of photographs that document the massive illegal emigration of European Jews from countries freed by the Red Army, first to the shores of the Mediterranean and from there to Eretz Israel. Parts of the book are dedicated to the perilous journey of the children and orphans who walked the escape paths, while another part documents the journey and capture of the ship Exodus. Accompanied by explanations and verses from the Bible, in Hebrew, Yiddish and English. Foreword by Ephraim Dekel, "Haganah" member and among the instigators of the “Brycha". [104] leaves, 34x25cm. Good condition. Cover slightly damaged.