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Auction 61 - Rare and Important Items
April 24, 2018
Opening: $9,000
Sold for: $12,500
Including buyer's premium
The Bible - Torah, Nevi'im and Ketuvim. Amsterdam: Menasseh Ben Israel, [1631-1635]. Separate title page for each part.
A copy looted from a library in France and kept in the private library of Herman Wilhelm Göring, in his home in the "Führer Compound" in the Bavarian Alps.
An exceptionally fine copy of the bible printed by Menasseh Ben Israel in Amsterdam in the 17th century, considered one of a few bibles printed by a Jew at the time.
Facing the title page is a printed paper label with the inscription "Cette piece provident des collections personnelles d'Hermann GOERING au Berghof, [Berchtesgaden] 4-5-1945..." - indicating that the item was removed from the private collections of Göring in "Berghof" in the area of Berchtesgaden; below the inscription appears and ink-stamp of the French division which captured the compound on May 4, 1945: "Deuxième Division Blindée G. 5".
Berghof is the name given to the private home of Adolf Hitler in the Nazi compound in Obersalzberg, near the Bavarian town Berchtesgaden. The Nazi regime expropriated the area for its needs and established at its foot a big military camp as well as entertainment and vacation homes for the use of the Nazi Party elite when they visited. In the area, named Führersperrgebiet (Führer Compound) some elegant mansions were built for Hitler's close associates - Herman Göring, Albert Speer and Martin Boemann, as well as a tea-house and a very high lookout, named the "Eagle's Nest".
Obersalzberg area was heavily bombed from the air during the war, and some bombs caused serious damages to "Berghof" as well. On May 4, 1945, after Hitler's suicide, withdrawing S.S. soldiers burnt the ruins of the building, and the allied forces soldiers who occupied the compound looted whatever was left of it.
Herman Wilhelm Göring (January 12, 1893 - October 15, 1946), was one of the heads of the Nazi regime, commander of the "Luftwaffe" (the aerial warfare branch of the Wehrmacht) and the German airforce. A Nazi war-criminal (the most senior Nazi arrested alive when the war ended), who was sentenced to death in the Nuremberg trials but committed suicide by swallowing a cyanide pill prior to his execution. Göring was known for his extravagant way of life which included looting art treasures in all of occupied Europe, for his private collections and for decorating his mansions. From the bookplate pasted on the title page, we learn that this bible belonged, originally, to the library of Dr. J. N. Pellieux from Beaugency, France. It seems that the book was confiscated by the Nazis around the year 1940 (after the occupation of France), and reached the private library of Göring; was looted when the war ended, and finally - as indicated by a note enclosed with this copy - was given in 2005 to Mr. Rosenfeld from London by the pastor of the French division that broke into Göring's house.
Four parts in one bound volume. [1], 128; 124, [2]; 129-144; [145]-254; [255]-369 leaves. Leaves 124, [2] of "Ketuvim" were bound following the Pentateuch and before the Five Scrolls (pagination continues that of the Torah). [2] leaves at the end of "Ketuvim" with table of the year's Haftarot according to all of the customs, are found only in some of the copies. Volume: 22.5 cm. Good condition. Most of the book is printed on thick light paper of good quality. Stains. Contemporary vellum binding, slightly worn and damaged. Handwritten inscriptions (Hebrew and Latin) at the beginning and the end of the volume. Old bookplate pasted to the title page.
A copy looted from a library in France and kept in the private library of Herman Wilhelm Göring, in his home in the "Führer Compound" in the Bavarian Alps.
An exceptionally fine copy of the bible printed by Menasseh Ben Israel in Amsterdam in the 17th century, considered one of a few bibles printed by a Jew at the time.
Facing the title page is a printed paper label with the inscription "Cette piece provident des collections personnelles d'Hermann GOERING au Berghof, [Berchtesgaden] 4-5-1945..." - indicating that the item was removed from the private collections of Göring in "Berghof" in the area of Berchtesgaden; below the inscription appears and ink-stamp of the French division which captured the compound on May 4, 1945: "Deuxième Division Blindée G. 5".
Berghof is the name given to the private home of Adolf Hitler in the Nazi compound in Obersalzberg, near the Bavarian town Berchtesgaden. The Nazi regime expropriated the area for its needs and established at its foot a big military camp as well as entertainment and vacation homes for the use of the Nazi Party elite when they visited. In the area, named Führersperrgebiet (Führer Compound) some elegant mansions were built for Hitler's close associates - Herman Göring, Albert Speer and Martin Boemann, as well as a tea-house and a very high lookout, named the "Eagle's Nest".
Obersalzberg area was heavily bombed from the air during the war, and some bombs caused serious damages to "Berghof" as well. On May 4, 1945, after Hitler's suicide, withdrawing S.S. soldiers burnt the ruins of the building, and the allied forces soldiers who occupied the compound looted whatever was left of it.
Herman Wilhelm Göring (January 12, 1893 - October 15, 1946), was one of the heads of the Nazi regime, commander of the "Luftwaffe" (the aerial warfare branch of the Wehrmacht) and the German airforce. A Nazi war-criminal (the most senior Nazi arrested alive when the war ended), who was sentenced to death in the Nuremberg trials but committed suicide by swallowing a cyanide pill prior to his execution. Göring was known for his extravagant way of life which included looting art treasures in all of occupied Europe, for his private collections and for decorating his mansions. From the bookplate pasted on the title page, we learn that this bible belonged, originally, to the library of Dr. J. N. Pellieux from Beaugency, France. It seems that the book was confiscated by the Nazis around the year 1940 (after the occupation of France), and reached the private library of Göring; was looted when the war ended, and finally - as indicated by a note enclosed with this copy - was given in 2005 to Mr. Rosenfeld from London by the pastor of the French division that broke into Göring's house.
Four parts in one bound volume. [1], 128; 124, [2]; 129-144; [145]-254; [255]-369 leaves. Leaves 124, [2] of "Ketuvim" were bound following the Pentateuch and before the Five Scrolls (pagination continues that of the Torah). [2] leaves at the end of "Ketuvim" with table of the year's Haftarot according to all of the customs, are found only in some of the copies. Volume: 22.5 cm. Good condition. Most of the book is printed on thick light paper of good quality. Stains. Contemporary vellum binding, slightly worn and damaged. Handwritten inscriptions (Hebrew and Latin) at the beginning and the end of the volume. Old bookplate pasted to the title page.
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Auction 61 - Rare and Important Items
April 24, 2018
Opening: $5,000
Unsold
The Attorney General of the Government of Israel vs. Adolf Eichmann, opening address by Attorney General Gideon Hausner. Criminal file 40/61, Disctrict court in Jerusalem, [1961].
First and "internal" version of Gideon Hausner's famous address (stenciled), prepared for use by the prosecution team in the Eichmann Trial.
The "Eichmann Trial" was the trial of a senior "S.S." officer Adolf Eichmann, one of the key figures in the execution of the "Final Solution" to exterminate European Jews. The trial was held in the State of Israel in 1961. The trial, conducted in the presence of hundreds of reporters, was partly broadcasted by "Kol Israel", and it generated international interest. For the first time testimonies by hundreds of victims were heard, and the trial is considered a milestone in shaping the commemoration of the holocaust.
Attorney General Gideon Hausner (1915-1990) was appointed as prosecutor in the Eichmann trial and became the figure most identified with the Israeli prosecution. Mainly remembered is the opening address which Hausner delivered in the Eichmann trial, in which he talked about the extermination process of European Jewry in general, by citing an endless number of documents and testimonies, figures, names of German officers and officials, demolished congregations and even poems composed by victims. About the opening speech which lasted about seven hours, Hausner reported in his book "Mishpat Yerushalayim" ("Jerusalem trial", published by Beit Lochame HaGetaot and HaKibutz HaMeuchad, 1980): "I heard silent crying in the crowd, I was quiet and could not continue. I was lucky since it was almost six o'clock in the afternoon, when the discussion stopped. The presiding judge apparently observed what happened and asked if it was the right time to stop. I shook my head in consent and with gratitude".
Most probably, this copy served the prosecution team during the preparations for the trial. It contains tens of corrections written by hand (most of them proofreading corrections). In the last chapter of the bill of indictment (indictment and evidences, p. 102), appears a comment, written by hand, at the end of a paragraph about the evidence: "this way documents were kept by different people and many of them were handed to us"; on the same page appear two more corrections which are very interesting: in the sentence "Adolf Eichmann's guilt lies in planning, initiating and executing the crimes detailed in the bill of indictment", the word "initiating" was moved forward and preceded the word "planning". In addition, on the same page, with reference to states that published through their official institutions reports and documents about Nazi crimes - Poland, Holland, Denmark and Belgium - the name of France was added in handwriting.
In the video films documenting the Eichmann trial, uploaded to the internet by the State Archive and by "Yad Vashem" in 2011, Hausner is seen delivering his opening address from a booklet identical to the one offered here (see YouTube, in "Eichmann Trial" films - session 06, session 07, session 08, and session 09).
This copy of the opening speech was handed to the policeman Eliyahu Va'anunu, one of the policemen who guarded Eichmann in his shielded glass booth and during the trial, by one of the prosecution team members (Va'anunu served as a policeman in the "unit for peripheral security", a unit set for guarding Eichmann until the verdict and the execution, for fear of revenge against him).
The booklet is bound in a Bristol cover (with a metal filing mechanism), prepared by Va'anunu. On the cover appears the title printed on the title page (in his handwriting), with the words "Beit HaAm" (present day Gerard Behar Center, where Eichmann Trial was held) and the name "Karl"added to Eichmann's name.
[1], 103 pp, 33 cm. Fair-good condition. Slight stains, creases and tears, mainly at margins of first and last leaves. Open tears and stains to Bristol cover.
Rare edition. One copy only appears in OCLC, from the collection of the National Library in Jerusalem.
First and "internal" version of Gideon Hausner's famous address (stenciled), prepared for use by the prosecution team in the Eichmann Trial.
The "Eichmann Trial" was the trial of a senior "S.S." officer Adolf Eichmann, one of the key figures in the execution of the "Final Solution" to exterminate European Jews. The trial was held in the State of Israel in 1961. The trial, conducted in the presence of hundreds of reporters, was partly broadcasted by "Kol Israel", and it generated international interest. For the first time testimonies by hundreds of victims were heard, and the trial is considered a milestone in shaping the commemoration of the holocaust.
Attorney General Gideon Hausner (1915-1990) was appointed as prosecutor in the Eichmann trial and became the figure most identified with the Israeli prosecution. Mainly remembered is the opening address which Hausner delivered in the Eichmann trial, in which he talked about the extermination process of European Jewry in general, by citing an endless number of documents and testimonies, figures, names of German officers and officials, demolished congregations and even poems composed by victims. About the opening speech which lasted about seven hours, Hausner reported in his book "Mishpat Yerushalayim" ("Jerusalem trial", published by Beit Lochame HaGetaot and HaKibutz HaMeuchad, 1980): "I heard silent crying in the crowd, I was quiet and could not continue. I was lucky since it was almost six o'clock in the afternoon, when the discussion stopped. The presiding judge apparently observed what happened and asked if it was the right time to stop. I shook my head in consent and with gratitude".
Most probably, this copy served the prosecution team during the preparations for the trial. It contains tens of corrections written by hand (most of them proofreading corrections). In the last chapter of the bill of indictment (indictment and evidences, p. 102), appears a comment, written by hand, at the end of a paragraph about the evidence: "this way documents were kept by different people and many of them were handed to us"; on the same page appear two more corrections which are very interesting: in the sentence "Adolf Eichmann's guilt lies in planning, initiating and executing the crimes detailed in the bill of indictment", the word "initiating" was moved forward and preceded the word "planning". In addition, on the same page, with reference to states that published through their official institutions reports and documents about Nazi crimes - Poland, Holland, Denmark and Belgium - the name of France was added in handwriting.
In the video films documenting the Eichmann trial, uploaded to the internet by the State Archive and by "Yad Vashem" in 2011, Hausner is seen delivering his opening address from a booklet identical to the one offered here (see YouTube, in "Eichmann Trial" films - session 06, session 07, session 08, and session 09).
This copy of the opening speech was handed to the policeman Eliyahu Va'anunu, one of the policemen who guarded Eichmann in his shielded glass booth and during the trial, by one of the prosecution team members (Va'anunu served as a policeman in the "unit for peripheral security", a unit set for guarding Eichmann until the verdict and the execution, for fear of revenge against him).
The booklet is bound in a Bristol cover (with a metal filing mechanism), prepared by Va'anunu. On the cover appears the title printed on the title page (in his handwriting), with the words "Beit HaAm" (present day Gerard Behar Center, where Eichmann Trial was held) and the name "Karl"added to Eichmann's name.
[1], 103 pp, 33 cm. Fair-good condition. Slight stains, creases and tears, mainly at margins of first and last leaves. Open tears and stains to Bristol cover.
Rare edition. One copy only appears in OCLC, from the collection of the National Library in Jerusalem.
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