A leaflet sent by the "Jewish Religious Association of Berlin" (Jüdische Kultusvereinigung zu Berlin e. V.) to Jews in the city, ordering them to submit a declaration concerning their property. Berlin, December 3, 1941. German.
On Yom Kippur 1941, Gestapo officials in Berlin informed the chairman of the Jewish community Moritz Henschel and his deputy Phillip Kozower about the plan to deport the Jews out of the city. This operation was executed under the cover of "evacuation of apartments" and the deportees were informed that their rent leases expired, that there is a plan to transfer them to a "new location" and that they must submit a property declaration.
This leaflet was sent through the "Jewish Religious Association of Berlin" and it instructs all the Jews who wear a yellow star to submit a detailed declaration concerning their property (probably by filling in a special form sent with the leaflet). The leaflet also gives information about places where the declarations have to be delivered, and other instructions. On the bottom of the leaflet appear names of the community heads, Moritz Henschel and Phillip Kozower, with the name "Israel" added as a middle name to their names (according to the Nazi law of changing names).
The leaflet was meant to be folded and sent by mail, and on its back appears the name of the society and its address, with the name of the addressee inscribed in pencil (partly deleted) and two ink-stamps.
[1] leaf, 21X29 cm. Fair-good condition. Folding marks. A small number of stains. Tears and open tears at margins of leaf and along the folding marks (mostly small, slightly affecting text).

Camp-Flowers, booklet of sketches by Siegfried Alva – portraits of internees at the British internment camps on the Isle of Man. No publisher or year indicated, [Isle of Man, 1940?]. English.
A booklet with 13 sketches by Siegfried Alva, created in ca. 1940, while Alva was imprisoned at one of the British internment camps on the Isle of Man. Alva's sketches depict people he met during his period of internment, including Rabbi Josef Hirsch Dunner (1913-2007), who served as Rosh Beth Din of the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations in London in the years 1960-2007. Printed at the beginning of the booklet is a passage from the book "A Descriptive and Historical Account of the Isle of Man" (Newscastle, 1809).
At the outbreak of World War II, 75,000 German and Austrian citizens were living in Great Britain; most had arrived during the 1930s, fleeing Nazi persecution. The British government, fearing infiltration by Nazi spies and collaborators, resolved on a policy of arrest and detention. First, all the German and Austrian men aged 16 to 60 were arrested; later the women were arrested as well. In July 1940 the detainees were sent to the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea (a Crown Dependency), where a number of internment camps were built. Out of the thousands of detainees on the Isle of Man, the majority were Jews; many had been in open opposition to the Nazi regime. A rich cultural scene developed in the camps (many of the detainees were professors, doctors, scientists and artists).
Sigfried Solomon Alweiss (1901-1973), born in Berlin, began his career as an artist in ca. mid-1920s, using the pseudonym "Alva". He studied art in Paris and settled in England in 1938. Alva often painted portraits, and many of his works portrayed Biblical themes and subjects related to Jewish life in Eastern Europe.
[8] leaves, 20 cm. Good condition. A small number of stains and minor tears.
Not in OCLC.

Six photographs of Jews from the Polish town of Dąbrowa Tarnowska during the Holocaust. [Ca. 1939-1942].
The photographs show Jews wearing armbands, standing by doors marked with Stars of David, peeling potatoes and waiting in traveling clothes with suitcases, guarded by soldiers. Two of the photographs are captioned on verso in handwriting, in German.
Until the Holocaust the town of Dąbrowa Tarnowska (southeast Poland) was home to a Jewish community of some 2,400. In September 1939 the town was occupied by German forces, and its Jews were first sent to labor camps and later to the Bełżec extermination camp. Out of the town's Jews, about 50 survived the Holocaust.
Approx. 6X8.5 cm. Good condition. Minor blemishes.

Twenty two passports and documents chronicling the progress of the Mieses family from Europe to Palestine during the Holocaust period. Vienna, Antwerp, Toulouse, Madrid, Haifa and elsewhere, beginning-middle of the twentieth century.
The documents show that the family came from the city of Lviv in Poland, and in 1920 decided to immigrate to Vienna, where the father of the family opened a shoe store. After Austria's annexation to Germany in 1939 the family fled to Belgium and then to Grenade in the south of France, where it stayed until 1943. Somehow the family managed to cross the border to Spain, reaching Madrid, and in 1944 they set sail for Palestine and arrived in Haifa Port.This collection includes an interesting account of the various stops on the family's journey to Palestine:
1-2. Two German passports issued in Vienna for the parents, Nachman and Bronia Mieses, on February 15, 1939. Appearing on each is the stamp "J" (Jewish) and the additions "Israel" and "Sarah" to their names. Also appearing on the passports are stamps permitting free border crossings from February 17, 1939, and passport extension stamps from the German consulate in Antwerp, issued on April 10, 1940.
3. Austrian passport issued to Siegfried Mieses, son of Nachman and Bronia, on December 21, 1929. According to the stamps, the passport was used by Siegfried after Austria's annexation to Nazi Germany, and it is marked with special signs for Jews. The stamp "J" appears on the first page, and transit permits from Nazi Germany appear on the last pages. A cancellation stamp appears on every one of the passport's pages.
4. German passport issued to Siegfried at the German consulate in Antwerp (apparently immediately following the cancellation of his Austrian passport), on May 16, 1939. Stamped with the letter "J", with the addition of the middle name "Israel".
5. Confirmation of Submission of Request for Identity Card (Résépissé De Demande De Carte D'identite), issued to Nachman Mieses in Toulouse on January 26, 1942, with his picture and personal details (apparently used as a temporary residence permit in France). Appearing on verso are extension stamps from the city of Grenade in the south of France.
6-7. Two "Certificates of Identity" issued to the couple Bronia and Nachman by the British Consulate in Madrid on 20-21.5.1943. On the front of the certificates are their personal details and ink stamps of the consulate; on the back is a travel visa to Palestine, from 22.5.1943, permit stamps of the Spanish authorities, entry stamps to Palestine through Haifa from 4.2.1944 and additional stamps.
8-18. Eleven documents of members of the family from the pre-war period: birth certificates for Nachman and Siegfried from the Jewish community in Lviv, an Austrian certificate of citizenship from 1920, permit to engage in wholesale trade for Nachman Mieses, and other documents.
19-22. Four documents issued to the family members after the war: identity card for Bronia Mieses issued by the British Mandate government, from March 30, 1947; certificate of "Victim of the Nazi Regime" (Opferausweis) in the name of Siegfried Mieses, issued by the Austrian government on May 18, 1955; and others.
Total of 22 passports, documents and certificates. Size and condition vary. Good-fair overall condition. Stains, creases, folding marks and blemishes. Tears and open tears to some of the items (some of them restored).
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.

Thirty-nine photographs, documenting the scenes revealed to the soldiers of the Allied Force upon the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. April-May 1945.
Most photographs are disturbing, documenting the camp's victims, the mass graves, the crematorium, the barracks, the survivors, the temporary showers constructed near the camp, soldiers in insulation suits evacuating victims of the typhus outbreak, burning the barracks and more. One photograph shows a large open area with a sign: "Grave No. 2, approx. 5,000, 23 April 1945".
A number of photographs appear in two copies. On the back of one photograph appears a long handwritten note (English), describing the photograph and referring to the number of victims after the liberation of the camp.
The Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where approximately 50,000 people lost their lives, operated in Germany between the years 1943-1945. Due to the typhus epidemic in the camp, Himmler ordered not to evacuate it, and when the camp was liberated by British soldiers, the barracks, the buildings and tens of thousands of survivors were all still there. Over the weeks following the liberation, hundreds of survivors died every day and their burial was imposed on SS ex-soldiers. On May 21, 1945 the British burned the camp to the ground.
Size and condition vary. Approx. 9.5X7 cm – 14.5X10 cm. Good overall condition. Some stains and blemishes. Traces of pasting to back of some photographs. One photograph has tears at margins.