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Auction 50 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 16, 2016
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Megilat Haman HaHitlerai Shel Yameinu [Hitlerian Haman Scroll of our days], by Haim Ben-Yehudah Kalev. Jaffa-Tel-Aviv: "HaChoshen", [ca.1942].
Contemporary adaptations based on the Book of Esther, using the images of Hitler, Goebbels, Gering, Himmler, Churchill, Mussolini, and other figures, to depict the political atmosphere during the years following Hitler's rise to power.
[8] pp, 14 cm. Fair condition. Tears and creases, some leaves are partly detached.
Bibliographically unknown.
Contemporary adaptations based on the Book of Esther, using the images of Hitler, Goebbels, Gering, Himmler, Churchill, Mussolini, and other figures, to depict the political atmosphere during the years following Hitler's rise to power.
[8] pp, 14 cm. Fair condition. Tears and creases, some leaves are partly detached.
Bibliographically unknown.
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Auction 50 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 16, 2016
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1-47. 47 printed letters, addressed to "all places that absorbed youth and children - refugees from Poland who immigrated to the country through Tehran", 1937-1942.
The circular letters were sent by the Jewish Agency office for Aliya of children and youth, signed (in print) by Henrietta Szold or by Hans Beyth, and deal with various issues related to the absorption of children and youth: medical treatment, sending parcels, change of names, observing Kashrut, and more. All of the letters are in Hebrew except for one which is in German.
48-49. Two letters hand-signed by Henrietta Szold, addressed to Kibbutzim and Kevutzot that absorbed youth from Germany, 1936-1937.
Size varies. Overall good condition. Filing holes and folding marks.
The circular letters were sent by the Jewish Agency office for Aliya of children and youth, signed (in print) by Henrietta Szold or by Hans Beyth, and deal with various issues related to the absorption of children and youth: medical treatment, sending parcels, change of names, observing Kashrut, and more. All of the letters are in Hebrew except for one which is in German.
48-49. Two letters hand-signed by Henrietta Szold, addressed to Kibbutzim and Kevutzot that absorbed youth from Germany, 1936-1937.
Size varies. Overall good condition. Filing holes and folding marks.
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Auction 50 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 16, 2016
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"Bekanntmachung Nr. 413" [notice no. 413]. An official notice issued by Mordechai Rumkowski, chairman of the Judenrat in the Lodz Ghetto (Litzmannstadt), regarding the collection of jewelry from the ghetto residents. February 25, 1944. Yiddish.
A notice regarding the postponement of the last date for handing over gold and silver jewelry to 12 March 1944. After this date the jewelry will be confiscated without compensation.
Signed in print by Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, the "Chief Elder of the Jews in Litzmannstadt".
Leaf, 24.5 cm. Good condition. Folding marks, creases and stains. Small tear to margin.
A notice regarding the postponement of the last date for handing over gold and silver jewelry to 12 March 1944. After this date the jewelry will be confiscated without compensation.
Signed in print by Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, the "Chief Elder of the Jews in Litzmannstadt".
Leaf, 24.5 cm. Good condition. Folding marks, creases and stains. Small tear to margin.
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Auction 50 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 16, 2016
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1. The Tragedy of Polish Jewry. Jerusalem: Joint, Committee for the aid of the Jews of Poland, 1940. English. First booklet (no other booklets were printed).
Reports about Nazi crimes in Poland and the state of Jewish-Polish refugees. [1] leaf, 84 pages, 22 cm.
2. Michtavim Min HaGola HaNatzit [Letters from the Nazi Exile]. Published by the information bureau of the Jewish Agency, Jerusalem, 1943. The booklet comprises copies of letters from the Holocaust period. The letters reached the Liaison Bureau of the Jewish Agency and the Youth movements in Geneva from central Europe and from the Balkan during the last three months of 1942. 24 pages, 22.5 cm.
3. Dokumentenwerk ueber die Juedische Geschichte in der Zeit des Nazismus. 1. Teil, Ehrenbuch fuer das Volk Israel, von Rabbiner Dr. T. Guttmann [documents about Jewish history during the Nazi period. Part one, The Book of Honor for the People of Israel by Rabbi T. Guttmann]. Jerusalem: “Awir Jakob”, 1943. German. 96 pages, 24 cm, good condition.
4. Erlebnisse 1940-1944 [Experiences, 1940-1944], by Helmuth Mainz. Stenciled typewritten text. Haifa: “Roto”, 1941. German.
Memoires of Helmut Mainz from the Holocaust: occupation of Holland by the Germans, life in Amsterdam, deportation to Westerbork and later to Bergen-Belsen, and more. Enclosed is the author’s calling card, with a handwritten dedication. [1] leaf, 91 pages, 33 cm.
Condition varies.
Reports about Nazi crimes in Poland and the state of Jewish-Polish refugees. [1] leaf, 84 pages, 22 cm.
2. Michtavim Min HaGola HaNatzit [Letters from the Nazi Exile]. Published by the information bureau of the Jewish Agency, Jerusalem, 1943. The booklet comprises copies of letters from the Holocaust period. The letters reached the Liaison Bureau of the Jewish Agency and the Youth movements in Geneva from central Europe and from the Balkan during the last three months of 1942. 24 pages, 22.5 cm.
3. Dokumentenwerk ueber die Juedische Geschichte in der Zeit des Nazismus. 1. Teil, Ehrenbuch fuer das Volk Israel, von Rabbiner Dr. T. Guttmann [documents about Jewish history during the Nazi period. Part one, The Book of Honor for the People of Israel by Rabbi T. Guttmann]. Jerusalem: “Awir Jakob”, 1943. German. 96 pages, 24 cm, good condition.
4. Erlebnisse 1940-1944 [Experiences, 1940-1944], by Helmuth Mainz. Stenciled typewritten text. Haifa: “Roto”, 1941. German.
Memoires of Helmut Mainz from the Holocaust: occupation of Holland by the Germans, life in Amsterdam, deportation to Westerbork and later to Bergen-Belsen, and more. Enclosed is the author’s calling card, with a handwritten dedication. [1] leaf, 91 pages, 33 cm.
Condition varies.
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Auction 50 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 16, 2016
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Der Bericht des Jüdischen Rettungskomitees aus Budapest 1942-1945, Vorgelegt von Dr. Rezsö Kasztner (copyright by the author). Published by Vaadat Ezra Vö-Hazalah Bö Budapest, Budapest, [1946?]. German.
Report on the operations of the Aid and Rescue Committee in Budapest during WW II, edited by Rezsö (Israel) Kastner. Stenciled typewritten leaves.
The report, composed right after the war, aided Kastner's acquittal after a court decision in 1955 stating that "Kastner sold his soul to the devil" and collaborated with the Nazis. Kastner was assassinated in Tel-Aviv in March 1957. The report was translated to Hebrew and published in the early 1980s by the "Society for the Commemoration of Israel Kastner".
[1], XIII, 191 leaves, 30 cm. Good condition. Filing holes. Leaves not fastened or bound. Some stains and creases. Missing [6] leaves at the end.
Report on the operations of the Aid and Rescue Committee in Budapest during WW II, edited by Rezsö (Israel) Kastner. Stenciled typewritten leaves.
The report, composed right after the war, aided Kastner's acquittal after a court decision in 1955 stating that "Kastner sold his soul to the devil" and collaborated with the Nazis. Kastner was assassinated in Tel-Aviv in March 1957. The report was translated to Hebrew and published in the early 1980s by the "Society for the Commemoration of Israel Kastner".
[1], XIII, 191 leaves, 30 cm. Good condition. Filing holes. Leaves not fastened or bound. Some stains and creases. Missing [6] leaves at the end.
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Auction 50 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 16, 2016
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Képek az elhurcoltakról; Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Dachau [Photographs of the Deported]. Published by Fasiszták Altal Elhurcoltakat Segitő Bizottság [Aid Commission for the Victims of Fascist Deportation], Budapest, [1945?]. Hungarian.
An early booklet, printed a short time after the end of the war. Includes photographs from the camps at Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald and Dachau.
[20] pp., 29 cm. Fair condition. Folding marks and stains. Tears. The cover is partly detached and torn.
An early booklet, printed a short time after the end of the war. Includes photographs from the camps at Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald and Dachau.
[20] pp., 29 cm. Fair condition. Folding marks and stains. Tears. The cover is partly detached and torn.
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Auction 50 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 16, 2016
Opening: $400
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KZ. Mauthausen, Bild und Wort [Mauthausen Concentration Camp, words and pictures], by Simon Wiesenthal. Linz-Vienna: Ibis, 1946. German.
Simon Wiesenthal's memoirs from the Mauthausen concentration camp, with illustrations and photo-collages by Wiesenthal, portraying the atrocities which he experienced in Mauthausen. Tens of drawings, signed in print and dated 1945.
Simon Wiesenthal ("Nazi Hunter", 1908-2005), a Jewish architect, holocaust survivor, who devoted his life to track down and gather information on alleged Nazi war criminals with the intention of using the material at future war crimes trials. During WWII Wiesenthal was moved through various concentration camps. In 1945 he arrived in Mauthausen where he survived until the camp was liberated. After his release he started to work for the United States army in gathering material on Nazi war criminals. In 1947 he founded the “Jewish Historical Documentation Center” in Linz, Austria. Due to lack of interest in prosecuting Nazi war criminals the center was closed but Wiesenthal continued privately to collect and document material about Nazi criminals.
[114] pages, approx. 29 cm. Good condition. Dampstaining throughout all of the leaves (dark on first leaves). Stains and creases on the cover; some tears on the spine. Ink-stamp on back cover.
Simon Wiesenthal's memoirs from the Mauthausen concentration camp, with illustrations and photo-collages by Wiesenthal, portraying the atrocities which he experienced in Mauthausen. Tens of drawings, signed in print and dated 1945.
Simon Wiesenthal ("Nazi Hunter", 1908-2005), a Jewish architect, holocaust survivor, who devoted his life to track down and gather information on alleged Nazi war criminals with the intention of using the material at future war crimes trials. During WWII Wiesenthal was moved through various concentration camps. In 1945 he arrived in Mauthausen where he survived until the camp was liberated. After his release he started to work for the United States army in gathering material on Nazi war criminals. In 1947 he founded the “Jewish Historical Documentation Center” in Linz, Austria. Due to lack of interest in prosecuting Nazi war criminals the center was closed but Wiesenthal continued privately to collect and document material about Nazi criminals.
[114] pages, approx. 29 cm. Good condition. Dampstaining throughout all of the leaves (dark on first leaves). Stains and creases on the cover; some tears on the spine. Ink-stamp on back cover.
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Auction 50 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 16, 2016
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1. Buchenwald, reproducties naar zijn teekeningen uit het concentratiekamp / Buchenwald, reproductions of his sketches from the concentration-camp, Henri Pieck. The Hague: Het Centrum, [1945]. Dutch and English.
2. Tragédia slovenských židov - Fotografie A Dokumenty. Bratislava: Dokumentačná akcia pri ÚSŽNO, 1949. Czech. Includes photographs.
3. Flowers of Oświęcim, Zinoviĭ Tolkatchev. Published by Moses Herz Rubin, [Krakow], 1947. English and Hebrew. Numbered copy.
4. Zagłada Żydostwa Polskiego, album zdję̣ć / Extermination of Polish Jews, album of pictures. Published by the Central Jewish Historical Committee in Poland, Lodz, 1945. Includes photographs.
Size and condition vary.
2. Tragédia slovenských židov - Fotografie A Dokumenty. Bratislava: Dokumentačná akcia pri ÚSŽNO, 1949. Czech. Includes photographs.
3. Flowers of Oświęcim, Zinoviĭ Tolkatchev. Published by Moses Herz Rubin, [Krakow], 1947. English and Hebrew. Numbered copy.
4. Zagłada Żydostwa Polskiego, album zdję̣ć / Extermination of Polish Jews, album of pictures. Published by the Central Jewish Historical Committee in Poland, Lodz, 1945. Includes photographs.
Size and condition vary.
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Auction 50 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 16, 2016
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Three books concerning the Holocaust of Hungarian Jewry:
1. Sárga könyv; adatok a magyar zsidóság háborus szenvedéseiböl, 1941-1945 [The Yellow Book, Information on the Suffering of Hungary's Jews in the War]. Budapest: HeChalutz, [1945]. Hungarian. With illustrations by Shraga Weil. 216 pp. Light wear and stains, pen markings on a number of pages.
2. Szürke könyv magyar zsidók megmentéséről, Levai Jeno [The Gray Book on the Rescue of Hungary's Jews]. Budapest: Officina, [1945]. Hungarian. 238, [2] pp. Rebound, with part of the original cover. Wear, stains and tears, with small pieces missing from two pages.
3. Fekete könyv, a magyar zsidóság szenvedéseiről, Levai Jeno [The Black Book on the Suffering of Hungary's Jews]. Budapest: Officina, 1946. Hungarian. 318, [2] pp. Rebound, without original cover. Pen and pencil markings, last page with wear and tears, with losses.
1. Sárga könyv; adatok a magyar zsidóság háborus szenvedéseiböl, 1941-1945 [The Yellow Book, Information on the Suffering of Hungary's Jews in the War]. Budapest: HeChalutz, [1945]. Hungarian. With illustrations by Shraga Weil. 216 pp. Light wear and stains, pen markings on a number of pages.
2. Szürke könyv magyar zsidók megmentéséről, Levai Jeno [The Gray Book on the Rescue of Hungary's Jews]. Budapest: Officina, [1945]. Hungarian. 238, [2] pp. Rebound, with part of the original cover. Wear, stains and tears, with small pieces missing from two pages.
3. Fekete könyv, a magyar zsidóság szenvedéseiről, Levai Jeno [The Black Book on the Suffering of Hungary's Jews]. Budapest: Officina, 1946. Hungarian. 318, [2] pp. Rebound, without original cover. Pen and pencil markings, last page with wear and tears, with losses.
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Auction 50 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 16, 2016
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Worker’s badge from the Rekord enamel factory in Krakow - the factory rented by Oskar Schindler in 1939 and used by him to rescue thousands of Polish Jews from the Nazis. [Krakow, ca. 1937-1939].
Round metal badge, painted orange, with the inscription “Rekord” and the identification number 7533. Pin on reverse.
Following the occupation of Poland by the Nazis, in 1939, the city of Krakow began to attract German entrepreneurs who sought to exploit the new financial opportunities offered by the occupied territory. One of these entrepreneurs was Oskar Schindler, who arrived in the city a short time after the occupation and took control of a factory for the production of enamelware, formerly under Jewish ownership [he also changed the factory’s name from Rekord to Die Deutsche Emailwarenfabrik (“The German Enamelware Factory”)]. Within a short while Schindler turned to factory into a successful business. The factory supplied kitchenware to the German army, and the high demand contributed to its prosperity. In 1942 the factory employed about 800 workers, 370 of them Jews. The persecution of Jews and the organized terror tactics to which they were publicly subjected during this period brought on a change in Schindler, and he began to act for their rescue. To this end he exploited the position of the enamel factory as vital for the war effort - a position that granted him the protection of the German Army authorities, with whom he signed contracts, thereby enabling him to recruit more and more Jewish workers from the ghetto in order to fulfill his contractual obligations. When his Jewish workers were threatened with deportation and transfer to concentration and death camps, he succeeded, with much effort, to obtain exemptions for them. Schindler was questioned a number of times under suspicion of unseemly conduct and preference of Jews, but each time was released and resumed his activities to save Jews. In 1943 Schindler met with Israel Kastner and Shmuel Springman and handed them a detailed report of the genocide in Poland, and particularly in Auschwitz. In 1967 Schindler was recognized by Yad Vashem as one of the “Righteous Among the Nations”. His story was made famous in Steven Spielberg’s film “The Schindler List”, which won an Oscar for Best Film of 1993.
Diameter: 37 mm. Good condition. Color chipping.
Round metal badge, painted orange, with the inscription “Rekord” and the identification number 7533. Pin on reverse.
Following the occupation of Poland by the Nazis, in 1939, the city of Krakow began to attract German entrepreneurs who sought to exploit the new financial opportunities offered by the occupied territory. One of these entrepreneurs was Oskar Schindler, who arrived in the city a short time after the occupation and took control of a factory for the production of enamelware, formerly under Jewish ownership [he also changed the factory’s name from Rekord to Die Deutsche Emailwarenfabrik (“The German Enamelware Factory”)]. Within a short while Schindler turned to factory into a successful business. The factory supplied kitchenware to the German army, and the high demand contributed to its prosperity. In 1942 the factory employed about 800 workers, 370 of them Jews. The persecution of Jews and the organized terror tactics to which they were publicly subjected during this period brought on a change in Schindler, and he began to act for their rescue. To this end he exploited the position of the enamel factory as vital for the war effort - a position that granted him the protection of the German Army authorities, with whom he signed contracts, thereby enabling him to recruit more and more Jewish workers from the ghetto in order to fulfill his contractual obligations. When his Jewish workers were threatened with deportation and transfer to concentration and death camps, he succeeded, with much effort, to obtain exemptions for them. Schindler was questioned a number of times under suspicion of unseemly conduct and preference of Jews, but each time was released and resumed his activities to save Jews. In 1943 Schindler met with Israel Kastner and Shmuel Springman and handed them a detailed report of the genocide in Poland, and particularly in Auschwitz. In 1967 Schindler was recognized by Yad Vashem as one of the “Righteous Among the Nations”. His story was made famous in Steven Spielberg’s film “The Schindler List”, which won an Oscar for Best Film of 1993.
Diameter: 37 mm. Good condition. Color chipping.
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March 16, 2016
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Collection of documents related to the issue of a visa for the family of David Morgenstern from Poland / Lithuania, who fled from the Nazis in 1940s using a visa issued by the Consul of Japan in Kovno, Chiune Sugihara. Documents include: * Passport certificate of David Morgenstsern, issued at Krakow in 1939, and its translation to English from Mexico, 1941. * Official document in Polish from 1939, and a document in German certifying that Morgenstern purchased a boat ticket, for himself and his family, to sail from Vladivostok in Russia to Yokohama, Japan, from September 1940. * Telegram in German, apparently from a travel company, regarding tickets and a visa to Panama and Curaçao. [Probably September 1940]. * Two postcards from the USA (1944). A number of additional documents. The visa itself is not among the documents. Chiune Sugihara (1900-1986), recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations, was the Consul of Japan in Kovno. He issued to Jews from Lithuania and Poland transfer visas to Japan, and from there, using additional visas, to Dutch colonies in South America. According to estimates he helped rescue thousands of Jews. Total of 9 documents. Size and condition vary.
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Official paper issued by the Department of Foreign Interests in the Swiss Embassy in Budapest, granted to Jeno Schuk and confirming he holds a valid Swiss passport. Stamped "Legation de Suisse, Budapest" [Swiss Delegation, Budapest]. Budapest, October 1944. German and Hungarian.
Following the occupation of Hungary by the Nazis in 1944, the head of the Department Representing Foreign Interests of the Swiss Delegation in Budapest, Carl Lutz, began to act energetically to rescue the Jews of Budapest. Among other things, he issued Swiss "writs of protection" to Jews holding certificates. After negotiations with high-level Nazi bureaucrats, and with the agreement of the Hungarian authorities, he issued about 8,000 writs of protection - one for each holder of an immigration certificate. Later he applied the writs of protection to the entire family of the certificate holder, thereby allowing about 30,000 Jews to be included in the category of those enjoying the writs of protection. In addition, thousands of writs were forged on paper stolen from the S.S. office. In 1964 Lutz was one of the first to receive the title of "Righteous Among the Nations" from Yad Vashem.
[1] leaf, 29 cm. Good condition. Folding marks and creases. Stains and slight defects. Pen marking.
Following the occupation of Hungary by the Nazis in 1944, the head of the Department Representing Foreign Interests of the Swiss Delegation in Budapest, Carl Lutz, began to act energetically to rescue the Jews of Budapest. Among other things, he issued Swiss "writs of protection" to Jews holding certificates. After negotiations with high-level Nazi bureaucrats, and with the agreement of the Hungarian authorities, he issued about 8,000 writs of protection - one for each holder of an immigration certificate. Later he applied the writs of protection to the entire family of the certificate holder, thereby allowing about 30,000 Jews to be included in the category of those enjoying the writs of protection. In addition, thousands of writs were forged on paper stolen from the S.S. office. In 1964 Lutz was one of the first to receive the title of "Righteous Among the Nations" from Yad Vashem.
[1] leaf, 29 cm. Good condition. Folding marks and creases. Stains and slight defects. Pen marking.
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