Auction 35 - Rare and Important Judaica
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Auction 35 - Rare and Important Judaica
January 29, 2014
Opening: $2,500
Sold for: $7,500
Including buyer's premium
"JOIN THE ARMY – You can crush him – Enlist!" A proclamation by the Mandate government, PDR MISC / 3553 [Palestine Drawing & Reproduction, Miscellaneous], [August / September 1941].
At the center of the proclamation is a large illustration of a stretched out hand in the shape of the letter V – symbolizing victory (identified with Winston Churchill during World War II), which slices the map of Europe (on the map are marked the capital cities: Rome, Bucharest, Budapest, Tirana, Istanbul, Bern, Paris and London). The fingers of the hand grasp a Wehrmacht soldier (a swastika appears on his helmet) and underneath is a call encouraging the Yishuv's young generation to enlist to the war effort against the German enemy – "Join the army – You can crush him – Enlist!". At the top of the proclamation is the emblem of the United Kingdom of the British government.
When World War II broke out and during the war, many of the Jewish settlers in Eretz Israel volunteered for the British army to assist in the war against the German enemy. At the end of 1939, the national institutes of the Jewish settlement announced that they would assemble Jewish soldiers who would be willing to fight in the lines of the British army. 40,000 young men and women enlisted. At first, the British government was unwilling to recruit the Jews, but the German threat grew and its unwillingness dissipated. In the summer of 1941, when the German army attacked the USSR and was in the western desert on its way to conquering the Suez Canal, the lifeline of the British Empire, the demand of mass enlistment to the British army was reawakened. The national institutes announced the conscription of single men from the age of 20-30 and punished those who evaded the draft. Apparently, this proclamation is from that time. 60X85.5 cm, framed: 88.5X64 cm. Good condition. Folding marks. Few stains.
At the center of the proclamation is a large illustration of a stretched out hand in the shape of the letter V – symbolizing victory (identified with Winston Churchill during World War II), which slices the map of Europe (on the map are marked the capital cities: Rome, Bucharest, Budapest, Tirana, Istanbul, Bern, Paris and London). The fingers of the hand grasp a Wehrmacht soldier (a swastika appears on his helmet) and underneath is a call encouraging the Yishuv's young generation to enlist to the war effort against the German enemy – "Join the army – You can crush him – Enlist!". At the top of the proclamation is the emblem of the United Kingdom of the British government.
When World War II broke out and during the war, many of the Jewish settlers in Eretz Israel volunteered for the British army to assist in the war against the German enemy. At the end of 1939, the national institutes of the Jewish settlement announced that they would assemble Jewish soldiers who would be willing to fight in the lines of the British army. 40,000 young men and women enlisted. At first, the British government was unwilling to recruit the Jews, but the German threat grew and its unwillingness dissipated. In the summer of 1941, when the German army attacked the USSR and was in the western desert on its way to conquering the Suez Canal, the lifeline of the British Empire, the demand of mass enlistment to the British army was reawakened. The national institutes announced the conscription of single men from the age of 20-30 and punished those who evaded the draft. Apparently, this proclamation is from that time. 60X85.5 cm, framed: 88.5X64 cm. Good condition. Folding marks. Few stains.
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Auction 35 - Rare and Important Judaica
January 29, 2014
Opening: $3,000
Sold for: $7,500
Including buyer's premium
To Me Belongeth Vengeance and Recompense! Ernest Mechner and Otte Wallish. Colored lithograph printing. The General Hebrew Labor Federation in Israel, 1945. Stamped in upper right corner "mw" and in bottom right corner "Mechner Wallish Atelier".
Proclamation for May 1, 1945. At the top appears a flag of the Jewish Brigade under which there is a drawing of fighting Brigade soldiers on a bright red background. At the bottom, is a quote of a Biblical verse (Devarim 32, 35): "To Me belongeth vengeance and recompense; their foot shall slide in due time; for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste".
The graphic artist Otte Wallish (1903-1977) designed the “Hebrew Post” stamps and other stamps, Israeli bills and coins.
48X33 cm, framed: 57.5X42.5 cm. Good condition. Horizontal folding line.
Proclamation for May 1, 1945. At the top appears a flag of the Jewish Brigade under which there is a drawing of fighting Brigade soldiers on a bright red background. At the bottom, is a quote of a Biblical verse (Devarim 32, 35): "To Me belongeth vengeance and recompense; their foot shall slide in due time; for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste".
The graphic artist Otte Wallish (1903-1977) designed the “Hebrew Post” stamps and other stamps, Israeli bills and coins.
48X33 cm, framed: 57.5X42.5 cm. Good condition. Horizontal folding line.
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Auction 35 - Rare and Important Judaica
January 29, 2014
Opening: $2,000
Unsold
Proclamation to all residents of the State of Israel, on behalf of the Provisional government of Israel. Tel Aviv: “HaPoel HaTzair” Co-operative, May 14, 1948.
First proclamation printed by the Provisional government; calling on all State residents to volunteer to protect the homeland and care for its benefit: "In the period of this primary test, during the enemy's attack, the Provisional Council takes the rule in its hands"; "We have been thrown into a cruel war. But we shall remember: Inside the borders of our State, the Arab citizens shall continue to live – and for many of them this war is unwelcome. Their rights, equal citizen rights, we are commanded to fulfill. Our face is towards peace. We stretch out our hands to them for sharing in the building of the homeland. Citizens! We will protect the honor of our young State. Each of us is responsible for it by his conduct, the purity of his stand, his honesty. Every person is responsible for its security and its future". 96x63.5cm. Good condition. Minor folding marks. Pasted on thin acid-free paper.
First proclamation printed by the Provisional government; calling on all State residents to volunteer to protect the homeland and care for its benefit: "In the period of this primary test, during the enemy's attack, the Provisional Council takes the rule in its hands"; "We have been thrown into a cruel war. But we shall remember: Inside the borders of our State, the Arab citizens shall continue to live – and for many of them this war is unwelcome. Their rights, equal citizen rights, we are commanded to fulfill. Our face is towards peace. We stretch out our hands to them for sharing in the building of the homeland. Citizens! We will protect the honor of our young State. Each of us is responsible for it by his conduct, the purity of his stand, his honesty. Every person is responsible for its security and its future". 96x63.5cm. Good condition. Minor folding marks. Pasted on thin acid-free paper.
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Auction 35 - Rare and Important Judaica
January 29, 2014
Opening: $18,000
Unsold
Four monumental photo albums - travels through Egypt, Eretz Israel, Syria, Lebanon, Greece, Turkey, Switzerland and Germany in 1894.
Pasted on the albums leaves are 479 photographs, documenting the journey in chronological order. The owner of the album added large decorated titles to most of the leaves, as well as quotes from the Scriptures and the New Testament (relevant to the photographed sites), quotes of poems and handsome large colorful (watercolor) illustrations. Usually, the illustrations are a direct continuation of the subjects in the photographs: Oriental characters, flowers, birds, landscapes, etc.
Approximately half the photographs in the album (235) are small "private" photographs, photographed by the owners of the albums and half (244) are large photographs, mostly taken by well-known photographers such as the Turkish photographer J. P. Sébah (1838-1890), the French photographer Félix Bonfils (1831-1885), the Greek photographers Adelphi and Constantine Zangaki, who were active in the 1870s-1890s) and the French photographer Rubellin (active from 1860, owner of a studio in Istanbul; later signed "Rubellin et fils" Rubellin and his son); most of these photographs are signed and titled in the plate.
The albums in which the photographs are arranged are particularly large (height: 31 cm. width: 45 cm. thickness: 6-10 cm.) and are bound to look like books: wide leather bindings, leather corners and gilded impressions. Thick cardboard leaves, gilt-edged. Apparently, the four albums were created especially for their owner by a binder from Liverpool. The title (the country or area of travel; see below), the year 1894 and the initials RMI are impressed in gilded letters on the front cover of each album.
The first album is titled Egypt and the Nile and its binding is green. Written on the first page of the album is "The Start", and it is composed of photographs of Gibraltar, Port Said, the Suez Canal, the Nile valley and Cairo, hotels in Egypt, pyramids, the Sphinx, mosques, camel-riding in the Sahara Desert, the Giza Museum and some of its exhibits (Sphinxes, mummies etc.), Thebes, Medinet Habu (the Mortuary Temple of Ramesses III), etc. 77 large photographs and 73 small photographs are pasted on the album leaves. Four
photographs are enclosed.
The second album is titled Southern Palestine and its binding is red. It includes photographs of the market in Jaffa, a view from the house of Simon the Tanner of Jaffa, a view of Jerusalem from Mount Scopus, the Temple Mount (the Dome of the Rock is in the process of renovations), the Even HaShetiya (Foundation Stone), the Pool of Bethesda, Antonia Fortress, the Damascus Gate, Golgotha Hill, Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jaffa Gate, the road to Bethlehem, the Tower of David, the Armenian Church, the entrance to the room of the Last Supper, Robinson's Arch, the Western Wall, the Valley of Hinnom (Gehenna), the Shiloach Pool, the Mount of Olives, the Valley of Yehoshafat (Kidron Valley), the Moabite mountains and the Dead Sea (view from the Mount of Olives), Rachel's Tomb, Bethlehem, The Church of the Nativity, Solomon's Pools, Hebron, the Oak of Abraham (Oak of Mamre), "the Good Samaritan" site, Jordan Valley and Jericho, Mar Elias Monastery, the Jordan River, Shilo, Mount Ebal, Nablus, Sebastia, Dotan Valley, Mount Carmel, Druze at supper, Atlit fort, etc. 54 large photographs and 46 small photographs are pasted on the album leaves. 18 photographs are enclosed.
Pasted on the albums leaves are 479 photographs, documenting the journey in chronological order. The owner of the album added large decorated titles to most of the leaves, as well as quotes from the Scriptures and the New Testament (relevant to the photographed sites), quotes of poems and handsome large colorful (watercolor) illustrations. Usually, the illustrations are a direct continuation of the subjects in the photographs: Oriental characters, flowers, birds, landscapes, etc.
Approximately half the photographs in the album (235) are small "private" photographs, photographed by the owners of the albums and half (244) are large photographs, mostly taken by well-known photographers such as the Turkish photographer J. P. Sébah (1838-1890), the French photographer Félix Bonfils (1831-1885), the Greek photographers Adelphi and Constantine Zangaki, who were active in the 1870s-1890s) and the French photographer Rubellin (active from 1860, owner of a studio in Istanbul; later signed "Rubellin et fils" Rubellin and his son); most of these photographs are signed and titled in the plate.
The albums in which the photographs are arranged are particularly large (height: 31 cm. width: 45 cm. thickness: 6-10 cm.) and are bound to look like books: wide leather bindings, leather corners and gilded impressions. Thick cardboard leaves, gilt-edged. Apparently, the four albums were created especially for their owner by a binder from Liverpool. The title (the country or area of travel; see below), the year 1894 and the initials RMI are impressed in gilded letters on the front cover of each album.
The first album is titled Egypt and the Nile and its binding is green. Written on the first page of the album is "The Start", and it is composed of photographs of Gibraltar, Port Said, the Suez Canal, the Nile valley and Cairo, hotels in Egypt, pyramids, the Sphinx, mosques, camel-riding in the Sahara Desert, the Giza Museum and some of its exhibits (Sphinxes, mummies etc.), Thebes, Medinet Habu (the Mortuary Temple of Ramesses III), etc. 77 large photographs and 73 small photographs are pasted on the album leaves. Four
photographs are enclosed.
The second album is titled Southern Palestine and its binding is red. It includes photographs of the market in Jaffa, a view from the house of Simon the Tanner of Jaffa, a view of Jerusalem from Mount Scopus, the Temple Mount (the Dome of the Rock is in the process of renovations), the Even HaShetiya (Foundation Stone), the Pool of Bethesda, Antonia Fortress, the Damascus Gate, Golgotha Hill, Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jaffa Gate, the road to Bethlehem, the Tower of David, the Armenian Church, the entrance to the room of the Last Supper, Robinson's Arch, the Western Wall, the Valley of Hinnom (Gehenna), the Shiloach Pool, the Mount of Olives, the Valley of Yehoshafat (Kidron Valley), the Moabite mountains and the Dead Sea (view from the Mount of Olives), Rachel's Tomb, Bethlehem, The Church of the Nativity, Solomon's Pools, Hebron, the Oak of Abraham (Oak of Mamre), "the Good Samaritan" site, Jordan Valley and Jericho, Mar Elias Monastery, the Jordan River, Shilo, Mount Ebal, Nablus, Sebastia, Dotan Valley, Mount Carmel, Druze at supper, Atlit fort, etc. 54 large photographs and 46 small photographs are pasted on the album leaves. 18 photographs are enclosed.
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![Three photographs by Robert Capa, featuring General David (Mickey) Marcus, [1948].
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![Three photographs by Robert Capa, featuring General David (Mickey) Marcus, [1948].
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Auction 35 - Rare and Important Judaica
January 29, 2014
Opening: $5,000
Unsold
Three photographs by Robert Capa, featuring General David (Mickey) Marcus, [1948].
Robert Capa (1913-1954) – American photographer of Jewish-Hungarian descent (born Erno Andre Freidman, in Budapest), considered the most famous war photographer of the 20th century. Experienced five wars: The civil war in Spain, Japan's invasion of China, World War II (all over Europe), Israel's War of Independence and the first Sino-Indian War. Among other projects, Capa documented the invasion of Normandy (D-day) and the liberation of Paris. In 1948, Capa came to Israel several times and photo-documented the War of Independence and the declaration ceremony. He was killed in a mine explosion in Vietnam during the first Sino-Indian war, when he left the jeep in the convoy in which he was traveling to photograph the advancing forces from a different angle.
David Marcus (1902-1948), also known as Mickey Stone, was the first general in the IDF, and a United States Army colonel. Many heroic stories are told of his role in the battles to liberate Europe in which he actively partook during World War II. In the framework of his diplomatic work, he participated in the Yalta, Tehran and Potsdam conferences. He came to Israel during the War of Independence as a member of Machal initiated by the Haganah, to contribute from his military experience. He wrote booklets on military matters, a report on the state of the battling forces and their setup. On the day the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem fell, he was appointed as commander of the Jerusalem front. Marcus was killed a few hours before the beginning of the first cease-fire of the War of Independence, accidentally shot to death by an IDF sentry in the village of Abu Ghosh, location of his headquarters.
On the verso of one photograph appears a handwritten (pen) signature of Robert Capa, with an ink-stamp: “Photograph by PM” and a caption written in pencil :“Marcus”, apparently in Capa’s handwriting; another photo bears the same ink-stamp on the back with a caption written in pencil as mentioned above [apparently, the stamp is from the cooperative international photography agency Magnum founded in 1947 with the cooperation of Robert Capa, Henri Cartier Bresson, David Sim Simor and George Roger]; the third photograph is neither signed nor titled. 20.5X25 cm. Good condition, few stains and wrinkles. Two are staple-marked.
Robert Capa (1913-1954) – American photographer of Jewish-Hungarian descent (born Erno Andre Freidman, in Budapest), considered the most famous war photographer of the 20th century. Experienced five wars: The civil war in Spain, Japan's invasion of China, World War II (all over Europe), Israel's War of Independence and the first Sino-Indian War. Among other projects, Capa documented the invasion of Normandy (D-day) and the liberation of Paris. In 1948, Capa came to Israel several times and photo-documented the War of Independence and the declaration ceremony. He was killed in a mine explosion in Vietnam during the first Sino-Indian war, when he left the jeep in the convoy in which he was traveling to photograph the advancing forces from a different angle.
David Marcus (1902-1948), also known as Mickey Stone, was the first general in the IDF, and a United States Army colonel. Many heroic stories are told of his role in the battles to liberate Europe in which he actively partook during World War II. In the framework of his diplomatic work, he participated in the Yalta, Tehran and Potsdam conferences. He came to Israel during the War of Independence as a member of Machal initiated by the Haganah, to contribute from his military experience. He wrote booklets on military matters, a report on the state of the battling forces and their setup. On the day the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem fell, he was appointed as commander of the Jerusalem front. Marcus was killed a few hours before the beginning of the first cease-fire of the War of Independence, accidentally shot to death by an IDF sentry in the village of Abu Ghosh, location of his headquarters.
On the verso of one photograph appears a handwritten (pen) signature of Robert Capa, with an ink-stamp: “Photograph by PM” and a caption written in pencil :“Marcus”, apparently in Capa’s handwriting; another photo bears the same ink-stamp on the back with a caption written in pencil as mentioned above [apparently, the stamp is from the cooperative international photography agency Magnum founded in 1947 with the cooperation of Robert Capa, Henri Cartier Bresson, David Sim Simor and George Roger]; the third photograph is neither signed nor titled. 20.5X25 cm. Good condition, few stains and wrinkles. Two are staple-marked.
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Auction 35 - Rare and Important Judaica
January 29, 2014
Opening: $14,000
Unsold
66 photographs by the photographer Robert Ziller.
~ 48 photographs taken in France, Italy, Germany and Israel, early 1930s. The photographs, all black and white, depict urban and nature scenes photographed in Paris, Seine, Milano, Berlin and Haifa. All are stamped on the back: "Publication only by Phot. R. Ziller". Pasted on the reverse side of some photographs are paper labels with a description of the photograph and with the name Ziller. A few photographs have handwritten descriptions on the back. Size: 13X20 cm – 17X23 cm. Generally good condition. Stains, glue remnants or paper labels on the reverse.One photograph is missing one corner. Several photographs have damage to margins.
~ 16 color photographs taken in Germany, Austria, Uzbekistan, Mongolia and India, 1970s-80s (prints from 2006). Unstamped. 9X13.5 cm. Very good condition. Seven have descriptions on the back.
~ Two black and white photographs. Not stamped or described. 20.5X25 cm. Good condition.
The impact of the German expressionist films can be clearly discerned in Ziller's photographs from the beginning of the 1930s as well as the Avant-garde esthetic influence of the New Vision and the New Objectivity movements which are expressed in emphasis on the independent artistic qualities of photography as a modern technological medium.
Robert Ziller was born in Berlin in January 1914. After concluding his secondary school studies, he began to serve as an assistant to a photographer in the UFA studios in Berlin. There he worked with the leading expressionist cinematographers of his time such as the film-directors Fritz Lang, Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Hans Schwartz, the Jewish-German movie photographer Eugen Schüfftan and others. In 1933, with the rise of the Nazi party, and because he was a Jew, Ziller left Berlin for Paris, there he worked on full-length movies with Eugen Schüfftan (who also escaped to France that year), but since he wasn't successful in extending his work permit, he left France in 1934 and immigrated to Eretz Israel.
Ziller was 20 years old when he reached Eretz Israel. In the beginning he worked as an agriculturist. Eventually, he returned to his professional occupation and worked as a newspaper photographer. During the 40s, he returned to his occupation in the film industry and photographed documentary films for the JNF. He worked with Helmar Lerski on the film Adama (the first full-length film photographed in Eretz Israel), Yaldei HaShemesh, Mangina Ivrit and Kupat Cholim, with the cinematographer Herbert Klein on his film Beit Avi as well as with the photographer Floyd Crosby. During World War II, he joined the British Royal Air Force and served as an army photographer in Africa, Italy, France, England and Germany. In 1947, immigrated to England and lived in London. There he worked primarily on documentary films. In 1951, moved to the US and settled in New York. Photographed the European scenes for Alfred Hitchcock's film Torn Curtain and worked many years as a photographer for the UN. During his worldwide travels on behalf of the UN, he photographed many films and stills. Ziller died in Litchfield, Connecticut in July 2010.
The films which he photographed in Israel are in the Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive in Jerusalem. Since Ziller traveled through many countries, copies of his photographs are rare and even negatives, especially of his early photographs, have been lost. To the best of our knowledge, these photographs (from the 1930s) are Ziller's only stills which remain from that time.
Enclosed: If I Forget Thee, a picture story of modern Palestine, by Meyer Levin. The Viking Press, New York, 1947. 10 photographs by Ziller are printed in the book. His photograph appears on the front cover.
~ 48 photographs taken in France, Italy, Germany and Israel, early 1930s. The photographs, all black and white, depict urban and nature scenes photographed in Paris, Seine, Milano, Berlin and Haifa. All are stamped on the back: "Publication only by Phot. R. Ziller". Pasted on the reverse side of some photographs are paper labels with a description of the photograph and with the name Ziller. A few photographs have handwritten descriptions on the back. Size: 13X20 cm – 17X23 cm. Generally good condition. Stains, glue remnants or paper labels on the reverse.One photograph is missing one corner. Several photographs have damage to margins.
~ 16 color photographs taken in Germany, Austria, Uzbekistan, Mongolia and India, 1970s-80s (prints from 2006). Unstamped. 9X13.5 cm. Very good condition. Seven have descriptions on the back.
~ Two black and white photographs. Not stamped or described. 20.5X25 cm. Good condition.
The impact of the German expressionist films can be clearly discerned in Ziller's photographs from the beginning of the 1930s as well as the Avant-garde esthetic influence of the New Vision and the New Objectivity movements which are expressed in emphasis on the independent artistic qualities of photography as a modern technological medium.
Robert Ziller was born in Berlin in January 1914. After concluding his secondary school studies, he began to serve as an assistant to a photographer in the UFA studios in Berlin. There he worked with the leading expressionist cinematographers of his time such as the film-directors Fritz Lang, Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Hans Schwartz, the Jewish-German movie photographer Eugen Schüfftan and others. In 1933, with the rise of the Nazi party, and because he was a Jew, Ziller left Berlin for Paris, there he worked on full-length movies with Eugen Schüfftan (who also escaped to France that year), but since he wasn't successful in extending his work permit, he left France in 1934 and immigrated to Eretz Israel.
Ziller was 20 years old when he reached Eretz Israel. In the beginning he worked as an agriculturist. Eventually, he returned to his professional occupation and worked as a newspaper photographer. During the 40s, he returned to his occupation in the film industry and photographed documentary films for the JNF. He worked with Helmar Lerski on the film Adama (the first full-length film photographed in Eretz Israel), Yaldei HaShemesh, Mangina Ivrit and Kupat Cholim, with the cinematographer Herbert Klein on his film Beit Avi as well as with the photographer Floyd Crosby. During World War II, he joined the British Royal Air Force and served as an army photographer in Africa, Italy, France, England and Germany. In 1947, immigrated to England and lived in London. There he worked primarily on documentary films. In 1951, moved to the US and settled in New York. Photographed the European scenes for Alfred Hitchcock's film Torn Curtain and worked many years as a photographer for the UN. During his worldwide travels on behalf of the UN, he photographed many films and stills. Ziller died in Litchfield, Connecticut in July 2010.
The films which he photographed in Israel are in the Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive in Jerusalem. Since Ziller traveled through many countries, copies of his photographs are rare and even negatives, especially of his early photographs, have been lost. To the best of our knowledge, these photographs (from the 1930s) are Ziller's only stills which remain from that time.
Enclosed: If I Forget Thee, a picture story of modern Palestine, by Meyer Levin. The Viking Press, New York, 1947. 10 photographs by Ziller are printed in the book. His photograph appears on the front cover.
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Auction 35 - Rare and Important Judaica
January 29, 2014
Opening: $3,000
Sold for: $8,750
Including buyer's premium
A unique collection of handwritten booklets and drawings which belonged to the youth Ullrich Remak, mostly from the time he stayed at a home for refugee children from Nazi Germany in Scotland, as well as certificates and documents, pertaining to his arrival to Scotland in the Kindertransport. 1938-1966 [most items are from the beginning of the 1940s]. English and German.
The collection is composed of unique handwritten items from the time Ullrich (Ully) Remak stayed at the German Jewish refugee-children's home in Scotland called the Birkenward Hostel at the beginning of the 1940s.
Below is the description of several of the more prominent items:
Four Handwritten Newspaper Issues which the boys published for internal distribution. The newspaper, named the "Refugee Club Paper" (RCP), was handwritten in only one copy and passed from one to another amongst the friends. The newspaper issues have short articles and poems, some of which discuss the war and the Nazi regime and allude to the Jewish origin of the writers; illustrations and comics, some colored. The issues are no. 3, 4 and 6 from 1941, and five leaves of another issue, incomplete, number unknown. Remak contributed illustrations and poems to the newspaper issues. Issue no. 4 includes two poems which he wrote (one titled "A Night in Wartime") and a comic strip which he drew called "Himmler Beats Dagger". Besides the newspaper issues, the collection includes leaves and booklets written by the children in order to amuse themselves and to pass the time: A catalogue presenting means of payment which they invented and used in the children's hostel. The catalogue presents 22 means of payment (cardboard cards) in the value of 1-100 RCM (Refugee Club Money), including a card of "00" intended for "collectors only" of which only 11 copies were made (the catalogue, from 1942, was handwritten inside a notebook upon seven pages; the means of payment were arranged and pasted onto the notebook leaves). A booklet dedicated to stamp collecting; a letter passed amongst the lads – invitation to a Sylvester party, December 1943; a handwritten list of 11 members in the Skelmorlie Club; Trivia cards; an animal bone, on one side inscribed: "Souvenir from Birkenward Hostel, 14.2.42", and on the other: " This dead bone goes to dust just how all are alike, stone, man & cow".
The collection also includes the following:
~ Eight illustrations by Remak, drawn in pencil, watercolor and chalk, all colorful (with the exception of one), some of World War II and the Nazis. One of the illustrations is of the inside of a synagogue.
~ Remak's private letters and documents: a notebook of marks from the children's school in Breslau, from 1936-1939; two letters addressed to Remak from the Refugee Children's Aid Committee, from 1942 and 1948; a National Registration Identity Card given to Remak in May 1940; certificate / visa to Great Britain for study purposes, with Remak's personal details and passport photograph; two postcards sent to Remak from his mother in 1939 and a letter sent to him from his aunt in the USA in 1947 (German); a list in German – the contents of Remak's suitcase when leaving Breslau for Glasgow. At the top of the list is his name, Ullrich Israel Remak (according to the Nazi regulation that obligates all Jewish males to add the name Israel to their names); a typewritten letter from 1966 addressing Mrs. I. Marchard requesting her assistance in finding the addresses of all the young men and women who stayed with him at the two hostels, on Hill St. and on Birkenward St. (English). The letter has the names of all the young men and women.
Ullrich Remak was born in 1926 in Breslau (Germany, now Wrocław, Poland). In 1939, following the rise of the Nazi regime, he was transported with his sister to England in the Kindertransport [a rescue mission to move Jewish and non-Aryan children, from Nazi Germany to the UK, according to a decision passed by the English government after the Kristallnacht]. Remak was placed in a hostel for German Jewish refugee children in Scotland. During the war years, he apparently stayed at two hostels for refugee children, one on Hill St. in Glasgow and the second, called Birkenward Hostel in the village of Skelmorlie. After the war, Remak stayed in England, studied engineering and was active in Zionist organizations. In 1951, he immigrated to Israel.
Enclosed is a collection of documents belonging to Ullrich Remak's mother, Nanni Remak. Nanni Remak (nee Loewe) was born in 1900 in Eastern Prussia (today Polish territory) and married Ludwig Remak in 1925. After her husband's death in 1938 and after her two children left for England in the Kindertransport, she attempted to immigrate to Eretz Israel but was caught by the British and transferred to a detention camp in Mauritius. In 1945, she reached Eretz Israel. The collection of documents which belonged to Nanni Remak is composed of a Nazi-German passport from 1936; a Nazi-German identity card from 1939, with the name Nanni Sarah Remak and two German identity papers from 1939; various documents, including her marriage certificate, her husband's death certificate, certificates testifying that she passed Red Cross courses (1941), etc; five recommendation letters from Breslau Jewish organizations from 1939, confirming that they employed Remak and testifying to her good qualities, apparently written preceding her leaving the city; an immigration certificate testifying that Remak reached Eretz Israel in 1945 from Mauritius, and an identity card from Palestine (1945) with her photograph.
Total of 32 items belonging to Ullrich Remak; 25 items from the estate of Nanni Remak. Varied size and condition.
The collection is composed of unique handwritten items from the time Ullrich (Ully) Remak stayed at the German Jewish refugee-children's home in Scotland called the Birkenward Hostel at the beginning of the 1940s.
Below is the description of several of the more prominent items:
Four Handwritten Newspaper Issues which the boys published for internal distribution. The newspaper, named the "Refugee Club Paper" (RCP), was handwritten in only one copy and passed from one to another amongst the friends. The newspaper issues have short articles and poems, some of which discuss the war and the Nazi regime and allude to the Jewish origin of the writers; illustrations and comics, some colored. The issues are no. 3, 4 and 6 from 1941, and five leaves of another issue, incomplete, number unknown. Remak contributed illustrations and poems to the newspaper issues. Issue no. 4 includes two poems which he wrote (one titled "A Night in Wartime") and a comic strip which he drew called "Himmler Beats Dagger". Besides the newspaper issues, the collection includes leaves and booklets written by the children in order to amuse themselves and to pass the time: A catalogue presenting means of payment which they invented and used in the children's hostel. The catalogue presents 22 means of payment (cardboard cards) in the value of 1-100 RCM (Refugee Club Money), including a card of "00" intended for "collectors only" of which only 11 copies were made (the catalogue, from 1942, was handwritten inside a notebook upon seven pages; the means of payment were arranged and pasted onto the notebook leaves). A booklet dedicated to stamp collecting; a letter passed amongst the lads – invitation to a Sylvester party, December 1943; a handwritten list of 11 members in the Skelmorlie Club; Trivia cards; an animal bone, on one side inscribed: "Souvenir from Birkenward Hostel, 14.2.42", and on the other: " This dead bone goes to dust just how all are alike, stone, man & cow".
The collection also includes the following:
~ Eight illustrations by Remak, drawn in pencil, watercolor and chalk, all colorful (with the exception of one), some of World War II and the Nazis. One of the illustrations is of the inside of a synagogue.
~ Remak's private letters and documents: a notebook of marks from the children's school in Breslau, from 1936-1939; two letters addressed to Remak from the Refugee Children's Aid Committee, from 1942 and 1948; a National Registration Identity Card given to Remak in May 1940; certificate / visa to Great Britain for study purposes, with Remak's personal details and passport photograph; two postcards sent to Remak from his mother in 1939 and a letter sent to him from his aunt in the USA in 1947 (German); a list in German – the contents of Remak's suitcase when leaving Breslau for Glasgow. At the top of the list is his name, Ullrich Israel Remak (according to the Nazi regulation that obligates all Jewish males to add the name Israel to their names); a typewritten letter from 1966 addressing Mrs. I. Marchard requesting her assistance in finding the addresses of all the young men and women who stayed with him at the two hostels, on Hill St. and on Birkenward St. (English). The letter has the names of all the young men and women.
Ullrich Remak was born in 1926 in Breslau (Germany, now Wrocław, Poland). In 1939, following the rise of the Nazi regime, he was transported with his sister to England in the Kindertransport [a rescue mission to move Jewish and non-Aryan children, from Nazi Germany to the UK, according to a decision passed by the English government after the Kristallnacht]. Remak was placed in a hostel for German Jewish refugee children in Scotland. During the war years, he apparently stayed at two hostels for refugee children, one on Hill St. in Glasgow and the second, called Birkenward Hostel in the village of Skelmorlie. After the war, Remak stayed in England, studied engineering and was active in Zionist organizations. In 1951, he immigrated to Israel.
Enclosed is a collection of documents belonging to Ullrich Remak's mother, Nanni Remak. Nanni Remak (nee Loewe) was born in 1900 in Eastern Prussia (today Polish territory) and married Ludwig Remak in 1925. After her husband's death in 1938 and after her two children left for England in the Kindertransport, she attempted to immigrate to Eretz Israel but was caught by the British and transferred to a detention camp in Mauritius. In 1945, she reached Eretz Israel. The collection of documents which belonged to Nanni Remak is composed of a Nazi-German passport from 1936; a Nazi-German identity card from 1939, with the name Nanni Sarah Remak and two German identity papers from 1939; various documents, including her marriage certificate, her husband's death certificate, certificates testifying that she passed Red Cross courses (1941), etc; five recommendation letters from Breslau Jewish organizations from 1939, confirming that they employed Remak and testifying to her good qualities, apparently written preceding her leaving the city; an immigration certificate testifying that Remak reached Eretz Israel in 1945 from Mauritius, and an identity card from Palestine (1945) with her photograph.
Total of 32 items belonging to Ullrich Remak; 25 items from the estate of Nanni Remak. Varied size and condition.
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Auction 35 - Rare and Important Judaica
January 29, 2014
Opening: $1,000
Sold for: $2,500
Including buyer's premium
Paper token in the value of 1 Mark (Reichsmark), from the Auschwitz Concentration Camp. Issued in August 1944. Signed in handwriting on the reverse: "K. Tzetnik 135633".
Printed on the front of the token is the inscription "Prämienschein über 1 RM / Konzentrationslager Auschwitz". Such paper tokens were issued in the Auschwitz extermination camp as "bonuses" or work incentives. Zvi Stahl writes in his book "Jewish Ghettos and Concentration Camps' Money" that "these means of payment, in denominations of 1/2 and 1 mark, were given only to chosen inmates of Auschwitz and generally to non-Jewish prisoners, although there is evidence that Jewish prisoners were privileged to benefit from these 'valuable' paper tokens as well. […] During conversations with Auschwitz survivors, to my surprise, I discovered that most inmates never laid their eyes on such tokens. They were surprised to hear that such means of payment even existed". Stahl also mentions that in his book "Man's Search for Meaning", Viktor Frankl tells of a 1 mark token that he received in the Auschwitz Extermination Camp and notes that such a token could be exchanged for a dozen cigarettes and the dozen cigarettes could be exchanged for a dozen portions of soup. Such tokens are very rare. [See: Zvi Stahl, Jewish Ghettos and Concentration Camps' Money (1933-1945), London, Holon 1990, pp. 52-56].
This token was given to the author K. Tzetnik during his imprisonment at Auschwitz and he saved it throughout the war years. On the reverse side of the token he signed his pen name "K. Tzetnik" with the number 135633 – the prisoner number he received in the camp.
K. Tzetnik is the pen name of Yechiel De-Nur (former Feiner, 1917-2001), a native of Poland, and survivor of the Auschwitz Extermination Camp, where he lost his entire family. De-Nur Arrived to Eretz Israel via Italy and dedicated his life to writing about his imprisonment in Auschwitz. While writing his books, De-Nur would return to the "Auschwitz planet" close himself in his room, wear his prisoner garb and not shower, sleep or eat for days. He wrote his books, characterized by chilling descriptions, while protecting his complete anonymity and using the pen name K. Tzetnik. His identity was exposed at the Eichmann trials, when he took the witness stand.
Length: 5 cm, width: 7.3 cm. Creases, folding marks and stains.
The originality of the signature was approved by his daughter, Daniella De-Nur.
Printed on the front of the token is the inscription "Prämienschein über 1 RM / Konzentrationslager Auschwitz". Such paper tokens were issued in the Auschwitz extermination camp as "bonuses" or work incentives. Zvi Stahl writes in his book "Jewish Ghettos and Concentration Camps' Money" that "these means of payment, in denominations of 1/2 and 1 mark, were given only to chosen inmates of Auschwitz and generally to non-Jewish prisoners, although there is evidence that Jewish prisoners were privileged to benefit from these 'valuable' paper tokens as well. […] During conversations with Auschwitz survivors, to my surprise, I discovered that most inmates never laid their eyes on such tokens. They were surprised to hear that such means of payment even existed". Stahl also mentions that in his book "Man's Search for Meaning", Viktor Frankl tells of a 1 mark token that he received in the Auschwitz Extermination Camp and notes that such a token could be exchanged for a dozen cigarettes and the dozen cigarettes could be exchanged for a dozen portions of soup. Such tokens are very rare. [See: Zvi Stahl, Jewish Ghettos and Concentration Camps' Money (1933-1945), London, Holon 1990, pp. 52-56].
This token was given to the author K. Tzetnik during his imprisonment at Auschwitz and he saved it throughout the war years. On the reverse side of the token he signed his pen name "K. Tzetnik" with the number 135633 – the prisoner number he received in the camp.
K. Tzetnik is the pen name of Yechiel De-Nur (former Feiner, 1917-2001), a native of Poland, and survivor of the Auschwitz Extermination Camp, where he lost his entire family. De-Nur Arrived to Eretz Israel via Italy and dedicated his life to writing about his imprisonment in Auschwitz. While writing his books, De-Nur would return to the "Auschwitz planet" close himself in his room, wear his prisoner garb and not shower, sleep or eat for days. He wrote his books, characterized by chilling descriptions, while protecting his complete anonymity and using the pen name K. Tzetnik. His identity was exposed at the Eichmann trials, when he took the witness stand.
Length: 5 cm, width: 7.3 cm. Creases, folding marks and stains.
The originality of the signature was approved by his daughter, Daniella De-Nur.
Catalogue
Auction 35 - Rare and Important Judaica
January 29, 2014
Opening: $3,000
Sold for: $3,750
Including buyer's premium
The Black Album. Published by the Anti-Nazi League, Tel-Aviv, April 1940. Hebrew, English and French.
Postcard binder composed of eight postcards (out of ten).
This binder is a very early public visual documentation, maybe the first of its kind, of Nazi crimes on European soil, especially in vanquished Poland.
The anti-Nazi league, which published the binder in April 1940, aimed to set up "propaganda and publicity in Israel and abroad against the Nazi regime, the Nazi spirit and racial hate". These ideas have been realized in this binder. Not only in the photographs printed on the postcards, but also and especially in the words of introduction added by the anti-Nazi league members. Printed on the inner side of the cover: "Hitlerism means return to the savagery of the dark Middle Ages. In Poland, the Jews are compelled to wear on their backs the yellow badge as reproduced on the envelope of the Black Album. The Black Album contains the first series of pictures disclosing Nazi atrocities in Poland. The Black Album gives a vivid description of the Nazi regime and its cruel systems. Everybody is hereby enabled to unmask Hitlerism by sending the post-cards of the Album to his friends and acquaintances all over the world".
Similar words appear in the introduction: "… In Hitler's Germany, vast concentration camps have been erected where Nazi sadists torture their unfortunate victims to an extent never before conceived by human imagination. In these camps of suffering and death, the prisoners, principally Jewish, are submitted to most cruel corporal and spiritual humiliation, to hard labour, starvation and severe molestation leading to aberration of the mind and death".
Each postcard is titled - Death in Hitler's step, Nazi hangmen at work, One of the hundreds of victims in Poland, Nazi slave traders, Kidnapping, A horrible race, Migration of nations into misery, Nazi victims converted into ashes. The postcards are accompanied by captions, specifying some of the methods of Nazi brutality and destruction which were publicly verified and published only years later: death of thousands from disease, cold and hunger; daily execution and hanging of bodies on gallows in central streets of Polish cities; backbreaking labor; cleaning streets with mouths and hands; cremating bodies to ash, etc. The titles are in English. The introduction is in Hebrew and English. The captions are in Hebrew and French.
[10] pages, 8 postcards [instead of 10], [10] pages. Postcards 10x14 cm. binder 10.5X16 cm. Good condition. Postcards no. 3-4 are missing. Stains.
Postcard binder composed of eight postcards (out of ten).
This binder is a very early public visual documentation, maybe the first of its kind, of Nazi crimes on European soil, especially in vanquished Poland.
The anti-Nazi league, which published the binder in April 1940, aimed to set up "propaganda and publicity in Israel and abroad against the Nazi regime, the Nazi spirit and racial hate". These ideas have been realized in this binder. Not only in the photographs printed on the postcards, but also and especially in the words of introduction added by the anti-Nazi league members. Printed on the inner side of the cover: "Hitlerism means return to the savagery of the dark Middle Ages. In Poland, the Jews are compelled to wear on their backs the yellow badge as reproduced on the envelope of the Black Album. The Black Album contains the first series of pictures disclosing Nazi atrocities in Poland. The Black Album gives a vivid description of the Nazi regime and its cruel systems. Everybody is hereby enabled to unmask Hitlerism by sending the post-cards of the Album to his friends and acquaintances all over the world".
Similar words appear in the introduction: "… In Hitler's Germany, vast concentration camps have been erected where Nazi sadists torture their unfortunate victims to an extent never before conceived by human imagination. In these camps of suffering and death, the prisoners, principally Jewish, are submitted to most cruel corporal and spiritual humiliation, to hard labour, starvation and severe molestation leading to aberration of the mind and death".
Each postcard is titled - Death in Hitler's step, Nazi hangmen at work, One of the hundreds of victims in Poland, Nazi slave traders, Kidnapping, A horrible race, Migration of nations into misery, Nazi victims converted into ashes. The postcards are accompanied by captions, specifying some of the methods of Nazi brutality and destruction which were publicly verified and published only years later: death of thousands from disease, cold and hunger; daily execution and hanging of bodies on gallows in central streets of Polish cities; backbreaking labor; cleaning streets with mouths and hands; cremating bodies to ash, etc. The titles are in English. The introduction is in Hebrew and English. The captions are in Hebrew and French.
[10] pages, 8 postcards [instead of 10], [10] pages. Postcards 10x14 cm. binder 10.5X16 cm. Good condition. Postcards no. 3-4 are missing. Stains.
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Auction 35 - Rare and Important Judaica
January 29, 2014
Opening: $2,000
Unsold
Parchment leaf illustrated by the artist Shlomo Yedidya Seelenfreund. Inscribed at center: " Look down from the Heaven and see that we have become an object of scorn among the nations. We are thought of as sheep led to slaughter" (from the Tachanun prayer). An illustration of an eye gazing from heaven appears in the upper right corner. The artist's signature appears on the edge of the illustration: "S. Yedidya 1942". He created the illustration in the midst of the Holocaust, in the shadow of the terrible rumors that reached Eretz Israel of the mass murder of European Jews.
Shlomo Yedidya (Salamon Seelenfreund) was born in 1875 to Dayan Elazar Ze'ev Lajos HaCohen Seelenfreund and to Léni nee Weiszburg in the city of Szentes, Hungary. Two years later, his father was appointed Dayan in the Szeged community, and the family moved there. At the age of 16, Shlomo Yedidya left Szeged to Budapest to build his life as an artist. He studied at the art school in Budapest and afterward studied and worked in printing presses and in various graphics workshops. Later, he left Hungary and journeyed to Rome, Paris and Germany to participate in arts and crafts workshops, and to continue his studies. After his return to Hungary, he established a workshop and (in c. 1898) married Shoshana, also descended from the Weiszburg family. Art periodicals published his crafts and he became known as a master-artist and art teacher. He was invited to design and decorate the new Neology Synagogue in Szeged, inaugurated in 1903. Later, he was exhibited in group and solo exhibitions in Szeged (1910) and in Budapest. In 1921, he immigrated with his family to Eretz Israel, settled in Jerusalem and established a workshop. Eventually, the Seelenfreund family joined the small settlement of Beit Tolma in the Arazim valley (adjacent to Motza, near Jerusalem) where they built a house adjacent to a small field and garden. During the 1929 pogroms, on Shabbat, August 24, the house was burnt upon all its content – plans, finished works of art and equipment – the rest was looted. The family was evacuated on time and survived. In 1940, after wandering in various rented apartments in Tel Aviv, Shlomo Yedidya and his son Yehuda built their home in the Borochov neighborhood of Givatayim. In 1947, Shlomo and his wife Shoshana moved to the Yavne Senior Home in Tel Aviv. With the beginning of the battles of the War of Independence, during an Egyptian bombing, their home was hit when they were away and many of Shlomo Yedidya's works were damaged. In 1958, Shoshana Yedidya died and three years later (1969) Shlomo died. (The biographic details were taken from an article written by Timna Rubinger, published on behalf of the Memorial Museum of the Hungarian Speaking Jewry, Safed).
Approximately 23X28 cm. Good condition. Stains [primarily to margins].
Shlomo Yedidya (Salamon Seelenfreund) was born in 1875 to Dayan Elazar Ze'ev Lajos HaCohen Seelenfreund and to Léni nee Weiszburg in the city of Szentes, Hungary. Two years later, his father was appointed Dayan in the Szeged community, and the family moved there. At the age of 16, Shlomo Yedidya left Szeged to Budapest to build his life as an artist. He studied at the art school in Budapest and afterward studied and worked in printing presses and in various graphics workshops. Later, he left Hungary and journeyed to Rome, Paris and Germany to participate in arts and crafts workshops, and to continue his studies. After his return to Hungary, he established a workshop and (in c. 1898) married Shoshana, also descended from the Weiszburg family. Art periodicals published his crafts and he became known as a master-artist and art teacher. He was invited to design and decorate the new Neology Synagogue in Szeged, inaugurated in 1903. Later, he was exhibited in group and solo exhibitions in Szeged (1910) and in Budapest. In 1921, he immigrated with his family to Eretz Israel, settled in Jerusalem and established a workshop. Eventually, the Seelenfreund family joined the small settlement of Beit Tolma in the Arazim valley (adjacent to Motza, near Jerusalem) where they built a house adjacent to a small field and garden. During the 1929 pogroms, on Shabbat, August 24, the house was burnt upon all its content – plans, finished works of art and equipment – the rest was looted. The family was evacuated on time and survived. In 1940, after wandering in various rented apartments in Tel Aviv, Shlomo Yedidya and his son Yehuda built their home in the Borochov neighborhood of Givatayim. In 1947, Shlomo and his wife Shoshana moved to the Yavne Senior Home in Tel Aviv. With the beginning of the battles of the War of Independence, during an Egyptian bombing, their home was hit when they were away and many of Shlomo Yedidya's works were damaged. In 1958, Shoshana Yedidya died and three years later (1969) Shlomo died. (The biographic details were taken from an article written by Timna Rubinger, published on behalf of the Memorial Museum of the Hungarian Speaking Jewry, Safed).
Approximately 23X28 cm. Good condition. Stains [primarily to margins].
Catalogue
Auction 35 - Rare and Important Judaica
January 29, 2014
Opening: $2,500
Sold for: $3,125
Including buyer's premium
"Begerush Kafrisin", album with twenty six Linocuts portraying the life of She'erit HaPleita in the Cyprus internment camps, by art students, exiles in Cyprus, tutored by Naftali Bezem. Cyprus, [ca. 1948].
On the first leaf, a handwritten inscription was added: "this book was prepared by art students of the P. Rotenberg guides' seminary and was printed and bound by the students in 120 copies". A dedication from the P. Rotenberg seminary management also appears: "for Levy Schwartz, Ha'apala person, pictures from the way" (Shavu'ot, 1948).
The album opens with a short introduction (Linocut): "Cyprus is one stop on the road of suffering on the way to Eretz Israel. It means thorny barbed wire fences, forced idleness, and degeneration. Even in this existence there was life. Friends from the Camp in Cyprus tell about this life in this book". The Pinchas Rotenberg seminary was active in Cyprus internment camps, financed by the Joint, from mid 1947 through1949. The seminary founded schools in the camps, that taught numerous subjects. Staffs of teachers, of the best in Israel, arrived in Cyprus, including artists (Naftali Bezem, Ze'ev Ben-Zvi and others) who guided the various art workshops.
[28] Leaves, 49.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Original binding with an imprint - a Linocut. Foxing-marks, minor tears. Damages to binding.
On the first leaf, a handwritten inscription was added: "this book was prepared by art students of the P. Rotenberg guides' seminary and was printed and bound by the students in 120 copies". A dedication from the P. Rotenberg seminary management also appears: "for Levy Schwartz, Ha'apala person, pictures from the way" (Shavu'ot, 1948).
The album opens with a short introduction (Linocut): "Cyprus is one stop on the road of suffering on the way to Eretz Israel. It means thorny barbed wire fences, forced idleness, and degeneration. Even in this existence there was life. Friends from the Camp in Cyprus tell about this life in this book". The Pinchas Rotenberg seminary was active in Cyprus internment camps, financed by the Joint, from mid 1947 through1949. The seminary founded schools in the camps, that taught numerous subjects. Staffs of teachers, of the best in Israel, arrived in Cyprus, including artists (Naftali Bezem, Ze'ev Ben-Zvi and others) who guided the various art workshops.
[28] Leaves, 49.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Original binding with an imprint - a Linocut. Foxing-marks, minor tears. Damages to binding.
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Auction 35 - Rare and Important Judaica
January 29, 2014
Opening: $2,500
Sold for: $12,500
Including buyer's premium
Large collection of documents, from the estate of Isaac Stone, head of the Berlin Documents Center and U.S. foreign service office, [1940s].
Isaac A. Stone was born in Estonia in 1907 and immigrated with his parents to Boston as a young boy. In 1935, he earned a PhD in history from Harvard University. During the years following World War II, Stone served in the US Foreign Service and was in charge of the Berlin Documents Center established in Berlin for the purpose of gathering all documents from the time of the Nazi rule, needed by the prosecution team of the Nuremburg Trials to prepare the statement of claim.
From the mid-1940s, at the time the Nuremburg Trials were taking place, Stone worked as part of the team of Judge Robert H. Jackson, US Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court and chief United States prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trial (Jackson awarded him a special citation for his services). At that time, Stone worked independently to collect food and clothing for the Holocaust survivors in the DP camps in Germany and toiled to locate the relatives of the camp inmates in the US. In light of these operations, Stone was called the "Tzaddik (righteous one) of Nuremberg". [this name was used in NBC’s “Eternal Light” program broadcast, March 23, 1947].
After he retired from his service for the U.S. foreign office, he served as professor of history at several US universities. Ascended to Israel in 1970 and died in Jerusalem four years later.
The documents in this collection have been issued by the Office of U.S. Chief of Council and by the International Military Tribunal for use by the large prosecuting team (46 attorneys) of the Nuremberg trials and for internal court use.
The material is composed of English translations of documents from the time of the Nazi government used for preparing the statements of claim and the sentences; reports, protocols and memorandums distributed among the prosecutors; official documents connected to the trial (calling witnesses to the trial, requests for documents, biographical lists etc.); intermediate reports and temporary sentences, etc. The collection also includes hundreds of copies of documents from the time of the Nazi regime, used by the prosecution.
Below are some of the documents in the collection:
* Stenographic report of the meeting concerning "the Jewish question" under the chairmanship of field marshal Goering in the Reich's Air Force (12 November 1938, 11 o'clock).
* Activity and situation report No. 6 of the Task Forces (Einsatzgruppen) of the Security Police and the SD in the U.S.S.R.
* Translation of a "Top secret" document on the subject of Einsatzgruppe A.
* Translation of correspondence between Nazi regime leaders – telegrams, letters.
* Declaration of Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss, commander of the Auschwitz extermination camp (sentenced to hanging).
* Hundreds of leaves of translations of the journals of Hans Frank who served as Hauptsturmführer of the General Government (of the vanquished Polish territories) – war criminal, sentenced to death by hanging at the Nuremberg trials (the memories that he wrote of his years as Hauptsturmführer with descriptions of his crimes against humanity were the key evidence used against him).
* A binder with documents dealing with Adolf Eichmann.
* Various documents which belonged to Isaac Stone: documents from the time he was active in the US Foreign Service, correspondence with various institutes and organizations (mainly about the Holocaust), articles he wrote for the newspapers, etc.
The collection includes a total of 520 copies of documents and thousands of printed leaves (more than 2000); handwritten lists, newspaper cuttings and various documents.
Fair-good condition. Most of the documents are printed on brittle dry paper. Tears to leaf margins and corners. Detached leaves; some documents are not arranged in their proper places.
Isaac A. Stone was born in Estonia in 1907 and immigrated with his parents to Boston as a young boy. In 1935, he earned a PhD in history from Harvard University. During the years following World War II, Stone served in the US Foreign Service and was in charge of the Berlin Documents Center established in Berlin for the purpose of gathering all documents from the time of the Nazi rule, needed by the prosecution team of the Nuremburg Trials to prepare the statement of claim.
From the mid-1940s, at the time the Nuremburg Trials were taking place, Stone worked as part of the team of Judge Robert H. Jackson, US Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court and chief United States prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trial (Jackson awarded him a special citation for his services). At that time, Stone worked independently to collect food and clothing for the Holocaust survivors in the DP camps in Germany and toiled to locate the relatives of the camp inmates in the US. In light of these operations, Stone was called the "Tzaddik (righteous one) of Nuremberg". [this name was used in NBC’s “Eternal Light” program broadcast, March 23, 1947].
After he retired from his service for the U.S. foreign office, he served as professor of history at several US universities. Ascended to Israel in 1970 and died in Jerusalem four years later.
The documents in this collection have been issued by the Office of U.S. Chief of Council and by the International Military Tribunal for use by the large prosecuting team (46 attorneys) of the Nuremberg trials and for internal court use.
The material is composed of English translations of documents from the time of the Nazi government used for preparing the statements of claim and the sentences; reports, protocols and memorandums distributed among the prosecutors; official documents connected to the trial (calling witnesses to the trial, requests for documents, biographical lists etc.); intermediate reports and temporary sentences, etc. The collection also includes hundreds of copies of documents from the time of the Nazi regime, used by the prosecution.
Below are some of the documents in the collection:
* Stenographic report of the meeting concerning "the Jewish question" under the chairmanship of field marshal Goering in the Reich's Air Force (12 November 1938, 11 o'clock).
* Activity and situation report No. 6 of the Task Forces (Einsatzgruppen) of the Security Police and the SD in the U.S.S.R.
* Translation of a "Top secret" document on the subject of Einsatzgruppe A.
* Translation of correspondence between Nazi regime leaders – telegrams, letters.
* Declaration of Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss, commander of the Auschwitz extermination camp (sentenced to hanging).
* Hundreds of leaves of translations of the journals of Hans Frank who served as Hauptsturmführer of the General Government (of the vanquished Polish territories) – war criminal, sentenced to death by hanging at the Nuremberg trials (the memories that he wrote of his years as Hauptsturmführer with descriptions of his crimes against humanity were the key evidence used against him).
* A binder with documents dealing with Adolf Eichmann.
* Various documents which belonged to Isaac Stone: documents from the time he was active in the US Foreign Service, correspondence with various institutes and organizations (mainly about the Holocaust), articles he wrote for the newspapers, etc.
The collection includes a total of 520 copies of documents and thousands of printed leaves (more than 2000); handwritten lists, newspaper cuttings and various documents.
Fair-good condition. Most of the documents are printed on brittle dry paper. Tears to leaf margins and corners. Detached leaves; some documents are not arranged in their proper places.
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