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Auction 42 - Rare and Important Items
November 25, 2014
Opening: $5,000
Sold for: $23,750
Including buyer's premium
Ceramic Hanukkah Lamp, created for She'erit HaPleita in Germany. Munich, 1947.
Lamp in the shape of a cut down tree, half of which falls to the ground. The sun is located on the stump, on the tip of a young branch just starting to grow.
Inscribed in the center: "Central Committee in Munich 1948" – the "Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the American Zone in Germany".
On the base appears a stamp "Made by She'erit HaPlaeita in German Exile" (Hebrew; blurred).
Max. length – 25 cm, height – 11 cm. Good condition. Minor damages
Lamp in the shape of a cut down tree, half of which falls to the ground. The sun is located on the stump, on the tip of a young branch just starting to grow.
Inscribed in the center: "Central Committee in Munich 1948" – the "Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the American Zone in Germany".
On the base appears a stamp "Made by She'erit HaPlaeita in German Exile" (Hebrew; blurred).
Max. length – 25 cm, height – 11 cm. Good condition. Minor damages
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Auction 42 - Rare and Important Items
November 25, 2014
Opening: $2,000
Sold for: $5,250
Including buyer's premium
Two illustrated posters by the Central Historical Commission at the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the American Zone of Occupation in Germany, Munich, 1947-1948.
1. Helft schreiben di Geschichte von letzte Hurban [Yiddish: help writing the story of the last devastation]. Munich, 1947.
A poster calling for the documentation of testimonies from the time of the Holocaust, featuring an impressive illustration by "F. Schwatz" (signed and dated in print). Three figures appear in the illustration on the backdrop of a Barbed wire. At the front appear a pen, ink and an inkwell together with an open empty scroll, with only these words written on it: "It was in the days of…“ (Hebrew). The inscriptions are written in red ink.
42X58 cm. Good condition. Slight spotting. Folding marks. Tears around the folding marks. A tear of ca. 6 cm located at the upper part of the poster. Framed.
2. "Remember what Amalek did to you!" - Munich [probably 1948].
A poster with an impressive illustration by Pinchas Schuldenrein (signed in print), depicting the persecutions suffered by the Jewish people throughout the ages along with the books which were subsequently written on the subject: The enslavement in Egypt and the Passover Haggadah; the devastation of the temple and the Book of Lamentations; the events of 1648-49 and the book of Yaven Metzulah; the expulsion from Spain and the book Emek Habakha. The historical events are linked by clock hands, under which appears a drawing of a skeleton pointing to the symbolic number "6000000", a feather (for writing) and a line commanding: "Sammelt un Vorzeichnet" - collect and write-down, referring to the role of the Central Historical Committee in documenting the history of the Jews at the time of the Holocaust.
The artist Pinchas Schuldenrein was born in Poland and studied in the Warsaw Academy of Arts. After the Holocaust he established an art studio in the area of the displaced-persons camp in Zeilsheim with the aid of the JDC, where he created his famous work – "Yizkor". He gave some art lessons to children in the displaced-persons camps and his work was influenced by the Holocaust. In 1947 he immigrated to the USA and settled in New York. A few years later he changed his name to Paul Sharon. In New York he worked as an independent graphic artist and for the Schlesinger Brothers, until his death in 1998.
42X60 cm. Good condition. Folding marks. Slight spotting. Slight tears around the edges (around the folding marks). Framed.
The illustrations of both posters appears in the catalogue of the exhibition “From the Last Devastation – Von Letzten Hurban, Exhibition – Ausstellung”(Hebrew and Yiddish – printed by the Central Historical Committee, Munich, 1948). The illustration from the first poster appears on the cover of the catalogue. See also “Kedem”’s catalogue no. 31, item no. 429.
1. Helft schreiben di Geschichte von letzte Hurban [Yiddish: help writing the story of the last devastation]. Munich, 1947.
A poster calling for the documentation of testimonies from the time of the Holocaust, featuring an impressive illustration by "F. Schwatz" (signed and dated in print). Three figures appear in the illustration on the backdrop of a Barbed wire. At the front appear a pen, ink and an inkwell together with an open empty scroll, with only these words written on it: "It was in the days of…“ (Hebrew). The inscriptions are written in red ink.
42X58 cm. Good condition. Slight spotting. Folding marks. Tears around the folding marks. A tear of ca. 6 cm located at the upper part of the poster. Framed.
2. "Remember what Amalek did to you!" - Munich [probably 1948].
A poster with an impressive illustration by Pinchas Schuldenrein (signed in print), depicting the persecutions suffered by the Jewish people throughout the ages along with the books which were subsequently written on the subject: The enslavement in Egypt and the Passover Haggadah; the devastation of the temple and the Book of Lamentations; the events of 1648-49 and the book of Yaven Metzulah; the expulsion from Spain and the book Emek Habakha. The historical events are linked by clock hands, under which appears a drawing of a skeleton pointing to the symbolic number "6000000", a feather (for writing) and a line commanding: "Sammelt un Vorzeichnet" - collect and write-down, referring to the role of the Central Historical Committee in documenting the history of the Jews at the time of the Holocaust.
The artist Pinchas Schuldenrein was born in Poland and studied in the Warsaw Academy of Arts. After the Holocaust he established an art studio in the area of the displaced-persons camp in Zeilsheim with the aid of the JDC, where he created his famous work – "Yizkor". He gave some art lessons to children in the displaced-persons camps and his work was influenced by the Holocaust. In 1947 he immigrated to the USA and settled in New York. A few years later he changed his name to Paul Sharon. In New York he worked as an independent graphic artist and for the Schlesinger Brothers, until his death in 1998.
42X60 cm. Good condition. Folding marks. Slight spotting. Slight tears around the edges (around the folding marks). Framed.
The illustrations of both posters appears in the catalogue of the exhibition “From the Last Devastation – Von Letzten Hurban, Exhibition – Ausstellung”(Hebrew and Yiddish – printed by the Central Historical Committee, Munich, 1948). The illustration from the first poster appears on the cover of the catalogue. See also “Kedem”’s catalogue no. 31, item no. 429.
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Rare and Important Items
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Auction 42 - Rare and Important Items
November 25, 2014
Opening: $12,000
Sold for: $15,000
Including buyer's premium
Collection of Documents from the Estate of Attorney Zvi Terlo, Member of the Eichmann Trial Prosecution Team, 1961-1962 (and additional years).
The Eichmann trial, which was held in "Beit Ha'am" in Jerusalem in 1961, aroused much interest on the part of the Israeli and international media, mainly at its early stages and while the verdict was announced. The world viewed the trial as historic justice. However, some claimed that legally, the State of Israel did not have the right to judge Eichmann and he had to be brought to trial before a neutral or an international court. The influence of the Eichmann Trial on Israeli society was immense: numerous holocaust survivors opened their hearts for the first time through their testimonies and the trial aroused the awareness to the Holocaust in Israeli and international public as well as empathy towards the survivors.
The documents in this collection served attorney Zvi Terlo (1932-2010) – a jurist and attorney who served as a legal advisor to IDF in Judea and Samaria (after the Six Day War), senior consultant to the Minister of Justice, General Director of the Ministry of Justice and a Labor Court Judge. Terlo was a prosecution team member in the Eichmann Trial and as is evident in the documents, Terlo was in charge of preparing the legal material justifying the right to kidnap Eichmann and to hold the trial.
The archive includes:
• Documents on behalf of Shabtai Rosen, Legal Adviser of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem – "Civil Servant Card in the District Court in Jerusalem concerning the Legal Adviser against Adolf Eichmann"; and other documents issued by the Foreign Affairs Ministry, regarding clarification of relationship between the Israeli and Argentinean governments, following the kidnapping of Eichmann – "the governments of Israel and Argentina…decide herewith to regard as cancelled the incident carried out by Israeli civilians and which inflicted the basic rights of the Argentinean State".
• Four documents regarding the above mentioned subject, issued by Foreign Affairs Minister Golda Meir, where it is written "me, Golda Meir, Minister of Foreign Affairs, certify herewith: the capture of Adolf Eichmann in Argentina and his transfer to Israel where subjects of discussions between the governments of Argentina and Israel, and a solution was found to the disagreements, acceptable by both governments”. Three of the documents are signed by Meir.
• Pamphlet, “Legal Material” submitted by Gideon Hausner (Hebrew and English); copies of the Bill of Indictment, issued by the Government Legal Adviser (a copy in Hebrew and a copy in English); copies of the verdict (a copy in Hebrew and a copy in English, internal prints, stenciled); and other legal documents of the trial’s process (stenciled).
• Pamphlet, “Israel v. Eichmann – A Study in International, Comparative and Domestic Law (Amended Version)” by Dr. Ya’akov Robinson, consultant to the US prosecutor in the Nuremberg Trials and a State of Israel consultant in the Eichmann Trial.
• Hundreds of typewritten and handwritten leaves, related to the pre-trial arguments, “problem of kidnapping”, issue of the court’s authority to judge Eichmann and assembling legal material which justifies Eichmann’s kidnapping in Argentina and bringing him to judgment in Israel; memorandum: “marginal legal problems of the Eichmann Affair” and additional memorandums regarding judgment of WW I war criminals (some of the documents are addressed to Gideon Hausner Attorney General and Chief Prosecutor in the trial).
• Protocols of meetings with handwritten comments and corrections.
• Several documents concerning the International committee investigating Mengele’s crimes.
• Folder with a draft of the closing argument for the Eichmann Trial, typewritten, with corrections and additions handwritten by Terlo.
• Four printed brochures (issued by the Prime Minister’s Center of Information, Jerusalem) – “Opening Statement”; “Verdict and Sentence”; “Closing Argument”; “Appeal”. The brochures include the opening statement and the closing argument with dedications handwritten by Terlo.
• Seven photos (b/w) of the court room.
• Tens of protocols (stenciled) and typewritten leaves.
Total of hundreds of documents. Condition varies
The Eichmann trial, which was held in "Beit Ha'am" in Jerusalem in 1961, aroused much interest on the part of the Israeli and international media, mainly at its early stages and while the verdict was announced. The world viewed the trial as historic justice. However, some claimed that legally, the State of Israel did not have the right to judge Eichmann and he had to be brought to trial before a neutral or an international court. The influence of the Eichmann Trial on Israeli society was immense: numerous holocaust survivors opened their hearts for the first time through their testimonies and the trial aroused the awareness to the Holocaust in Israeli and international public as well as empathy towards the survivors.
The documents in this collection served attorney Zvi Terlo (1932-2010) – a jurist and attorney who served as a legal advisor to IDF in Judea and Samaria (after the Six Day War), senior consultant to the Minister of Justice, General Director of the Ministry of Justice and a Labor Court Judge. Terlo was a prosecution team member in the Eichmann Trial and as is evident in the documents, Terlo was in charge of preparing the legal material justifying the right to kidnap Eichmann and to hold the trial.
The archive includes:
• Documents on behalf of Shabtai Rosen, Legal Adviser of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem – "Civil Servant Card in the District Court in Jerusalem concerning the Legal Adviser against Adolf Eichmann"; and other documents issued by the Foreign Affairs Ministry, regarding clarification of relationship between the Israeli and Argentinean governments, following the kidnapping of Eichmann – "the governments of Israel and Argentina…decide herewith to regard as cancelled the incident carried out by Israeli civilians and which inflicted the basic rights of the Argentinean State".
• Four documents regarding the above mentioned subject, issued by Foreign Affairs Minister Golda Meir, where it is written "me, Golda Meir, Minister of Foreign Affairs, certify herewith: the capture of Adolf Eichmann in Argentina and his transfer to Israel where subjects of discussions between the governments of Argentina and Israel, and a solution was found to the disagreements, acceptable by both governments”. Three of the documents are signed by Meir.
• Pamphlet, “Legal Material” submitted by Gideon Hausner (Hebrew and English); copies of the Bill of Indictment, issued by the Government Legal Adviser (a copy in Hebrew and a copy in English); copies of the verdict (a copy in Hebrew and a copy in English, internal prints, stenciled); and other legal documents of the trial’s process (stenciled).
• Pamphlet, “Israel v. Eichmann – A Study in International, Comparative and Domestic Law (Amended Version)” by Dr. Ya’akov Robinson, consultant to the US prosecutor in the Nuremberg Trials and a State of Israel consultant in the Eichmann Trial.
• Hundreds of typewritten and handwritten leaves, related to the pre-trial arguments, “problem of kidnapping”, issue of the court’s authority to judge Eichmann and assembling legal material which justifies Eichmann’s kidnapping in Argentina and bringing him to judgment in Israel; memorandum: “marginal legal problems of the Eichmann Affair” and additional memorandums regarding judgment of WW I war criminals (some of the documents are addressed to Gideon Hausner Attorney General and Chief Prosecutor in the trial).
• Protocols of meetings with handwritten comments and corrections.
• Several documents concerning the International committee investigating Mengele’s crimes.
• Folder with a draft of the closing argument for the Eichmann Trial, typewritten, with corrections and additions handwritten by Terlo.
• Four printed brochures (issued by the Prime Minister’s Center of Information, Jerusalem) – “Opening Statement”; “Verdict and Sentence”; “Closing Argument”; “Appeal”. The brochures include the opening statement and the closing argument with dedications handwritten by Terlo.
• Seven photos (b/w) of the court room.
• Tens of protocols (stenciled) and typewritten leaves.
Total of hundreds of documents. Condition varies
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Rare and Important Items
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Auction 42 - Rare and Important Items
November 25, 2014
Opening: $2,000
Sold for: $3,750
Including buyer's premium
"Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl: June 14, 1942 – August 1, 1944"- Three copies, first editions of the book in Dutch (the first edition ever published), Hebrew, and Yiddish.
1. Het Achterhuis: Dagboekbrieven 14 Juni 1942 – 1 Augustus 1944 [The Annex: Diary Notes 14 June 1942 – 1 August 1944]. Amsterdam: Contact, June 1947. First Dutch edition. Only 1,500 copies printed. The Dutch edition was the first edition of Diary of a Young Girl ever published, preceding the first English language edition by five years.
XI, 253 pages, 19cm. Very Good condition. Clean leaves (light sporadic spotting). Hard cover. Boards lightly bowed, with light stains. No dust jacket.
2. Yomana Shel Ne'ara [Diary of a Young Girl]. Translated from Dutch by S. [Shmuel] Schnitzer. Jerusalem: Karni, 1953. First Hebrew edition.
220 pages, 19.5cm. Very Good condition. A few minor stains and tears. Hard cover, with the original paper dust jacket in Very Good condition (short, closed tears and slight chipping). Small bookshop label to the inner front cover.
3. Tagbuch Fon a Meidel [Diary of a Young Girl]. Translated by Yehoshua HaShiloni (Schleien). Tel Aviv: Menorah, 1958. First Yiddish edition.
322, [1] pages, 20.5cm. Good condition. Light spotting, mostly on the front and back pages. A few worming to the back cover and some of the back pages. Slight faults to the cover. No dust jacket as issued.
Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank (1929-1945) was born in Frankfurt and moved with her family to the Netherlands in 1933, after the Nazis came to power. As persecutions of the Dutch Jewish population increased, in July 1942, the Frank family went into hiding in a sealed-off room on the upper floor of the annex at the back of the building in which Otto Frank, Anne's father, worked. The entrance to their secret hiding place was behind a bookcase, which hid a concealed door. On August 4 1944, the hiding place was uncovered and the Frank family was transferred to the Westerbork transit camp, from where they were transported one month later to the Auschwitz concentration camp. On October 28 1944, Anne and her sister Margot were moved to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they both died of typhus.
During the two years she spent in hiding, Anne Frank kept a diary in which she documented her life and the lives of the people who shared the hiding place with her. The manuscript of the diary was found after the family’s arrest by the owners of the rooms in which the family had hidden. After the war they gave it to Anne’s father, the only family member who had survived the Holocaust.
First published in 1947, the diary quickly received widespread critical and popular attention, touching readers all over the world. It was translated into more than 70 languages, published in over 60 countries and adapted to the theater (winning the 1955 Pulitzer Prize) and screen (for which Shelley Winters won the 1959 Academy Award, whereupon she donated her Oscar to the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam). In the 1950s the book became a best-seller in Israel. It was added to the high-school reading curriculum and the publishers of the Davar daily newspaper gifted the book to its subscribers.
Since it was first published, The Diary of Anne Frank has maintained its position as an international best-seller and a classic of 20th century literature. It is the biggest best-seller and most widely translated book ever published in the Dutch language, the most popular personal diary of all time and one of the 10 best-selling works of fiction ever. Almost 70 years on, the diary continues to hold its place at the top of many literary lists. It is consistently voted one of the 10 most important books published in the 20th century, the most famous diary of modern times, the most famous work by a teenager, the most famous work on the Holocaust and the most famous 20th century work by a Jew.
1. Het Achterhuis: Dagboekbrieven 14 Juni 1942 – 1 Augustus 1944 [The Annex: Diary Notes 14 June 1942 – 1 August 1944]. Amsterdam: Contact, June 1947. First Dutch edition. Only 1,500 copies printed. The Dutch edition was the first edition of Diary of a Young Girl ever published, preceding the first English language edition by five years.
XI, 253 pages, 19cm. Very Good condition. Clean leaves (light sporadic spotting). Hard cover. Boards lightly bowed, with light stains. No dust jacket.
2. Yomana Shel Ne'ara [Diary of a Young Girl]. Translated from Dutch by S. [Shmuel] Schnitzer. Jerusalem: Karni, 1953. First Hebrew edition.
220 pages, 19.5cm. Very Good condition. A few minor stains and tears. Hard cover, with the original paper dust jacket in Very Good condition (short, closed tears and slight chipping). Small bookshop label to the inner front cover.
3. Tagbuch Fon a Meidel [Diary of a Young Girl]. Translated by Yehoshua HaShiloni (Schleien). Tel Aviv: Menorah, 1958. First Yiddish edition.
322, [1] pages, 20.5cm. Good condition. Light spotting, mostly on the front and back pages. A few worming to the back cover and some of the back pages. Slight faults to the cover. No dust jacket as issued.
Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank (1929-1945) was born in Frankfurt and moved with her family to the Netherlands in 1933, after the Nazis came to power. As persecutions of the Dutch Jewish population increased, in July 1942, the Frank family went into hiding in a sealed-off room on the upper floor of the annex at the back of the building in which Otto Frank, Anne's father, worked. The entrance to their secret hiding place was behind a bookcase, which hid a concealed door. On August 4 1944, the hiding place was uncovered and the Frank family was transferred to the Westerbork transit camp, from where they were transported one month later to the Auschwitz concentration camp. On October 28 1944, Anne and her sister Margot were moved to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they both died of typhus.
During the two years she spent in hiding, Anne Frank kept a diary in which she documented her life and the lives of the people who shared the hiding place with her. The manuscript of the diary was found after the family’s arrest by the owners of the rooms in which the family had hidden. After the war they gave it to Anne’s father, the only family member who had survived the Holocaust.
First published in 1947, the diary quickly received widespread critical and popular attention, touching readers all over the world. It was translated into more than 70 languages, published in over 60 countries and adapted to the theater (winning the 1955 Pulitzer Prize) and screen (for which Shelley Winters won the 1959 Academy Award, whereupon she donated her Oscar to the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam). In the 1950s the book became a best-seller in Israel. It was added to the high-school reading curriculum and the publishers of the Davar daily newspaper gifted the book to its subscribers.
Since it was first published, The Diary of Anne Frank has maintained its position as an international best-seller and a classic of 20th century literature. It is the biggest best-seller and most widely translated book ever published in the Dutch language, the most popular personal diary of all time and one of the 10 best-selling works of fiction ever. Almost 70 years on, the diary continues to hold its place at the top of many literary lists. It is consistently voted one of the 10 most important books published in the 20th century, the most famous diary of modern times, the most famous work by a teenager, the most famous work on the Holocaust and the most famous 20th century work by a Jew.
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