Auction 68 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
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![Schutz-Pass [Certificate of Protection] given to Lili Dukes by the Swedish embassy on September 28, 1944. German and Hungaria](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale68-public/229.jpg "\"Schutz-Pass\" Signed by the Righteous Among the Nations Raoul Wallenbe")
Auction 68 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
September 19, 2019
Opening: $7,000
Unsold
Schutz-Pass [Certificate of Protection] given to Lili Dukes by the Swedish embassy on September 28, 1944. German and Hungarian.
Certificate of Protection indicating that its owner falls under the protection of Sweden. Hand-signed by Swedish ambassador Carl Ivan Danielsson and stamped with stamps of the Swedish embassy in Budapest. In the bottom left corner is another signature (the letter "R") – the signature of Raoul Wallenberg.
The efforts of the Swedish embassy in Budapest to protect the Jews began shortly after the German occupation of Hungary in 1944. The Swedish ambassador, Danielsson, issued temporary Swedish passports to Hungarian Jews who had family or business relationships with Swedish subjects. In July 1944, after many of the Jews of Hungary were sent to Auschwitz, Raoul Wallenberg was sent by the Swedish Foreign Ministry to Budapest to assist in saving the Jews that remained in the city. The Hungarian and German authorities usually respected the authority of the Swedish embassy and Wallenberg succeeded in issuing thousands of certificates which protected their Jewish owners, although they were not legally valid. Wallenberg's efforts to save Hungarian Jewry didn't stop there. He stablished shelters for Jews and pressured Nazi officials to stop the transport of Jews to Auschwitz. According to testimonies, he even used to come to the train station where the Jews were gathered before being sent to Auschwitz, demanding to allow Jews whom he claimed owned Certificates of Protection to alight. In 1966, Raoul Wallenberg was recognized by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations.
This Certificate of Protection was given to Lili Dukes, wife of Dr. Geza Dukes, a lawyer and member of the Hungarian Psychoanalytic Association. In 1938, after the German annexation of Austria, the American Psychoanalytic Association established a special committee whose goal was to assist its colleagues to escape from Europe - The Emergency Committee of Relief and Immigration. Dr. Geza Dukes was aided by the committee; yet remained in Hungary and perished in the Holocaust (see enclosed material).
[1] leaf, 33.5 cm. Good condition. Fold lines and creases. Tears along fold lines. Stains. Minor blemishes. The leaf is mounted to paper for reinforcement.
Certificate of Protection indicating that its owner falls under the protection of Sweden. Hand-signed by Swedish ambassador Carl Ivan Danielsson and stamped with stamps of the Swedish embassy in Budapest. In the bottom left corner is another signature (the letter "R") – the signature of Raoul Wallenberg.
The efforts of the Swedish embassy in Budapest to protect the Jews began shortly after the German occupation of Hungary in 1944. The Swedish ambassador, Danielsson, issued temporary Swedish passports to Hungarian Jews who had family or business relationships with Swedish subjects. In July 1944, after many of the Jews of Hungary were sent to Auschwitz, Raoul Wallenberg was sent by the Swedish Foreign Ministry to Budapest to assist in saving the Jews that remained in the city. The Hungarian and German authorities usually respected the authority of the Swedish embassy and Wallenberg succeeded in issuing thousands of certificates which protected their Jewish owners, although they were not legally valid. Wallenberg's efforts to save Hungarian Jewry didn't stop there. He stablished shelters for Jews and pressured Nazi officials to stop the transport of Jews to Auschwitz. According to testimonies, he even used to come to the train station where the Jews were gathered before being sent to Auschwitz, demanding to allow Jews whom he claimed owned Certificates of Protection to alight. In 1966, Raoul Wallenberg was recognized by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations.
This Certificate of Protection was given to Lili Dukes, wife of Dr. Geza Dukes, a lawyer and member of the Hungarian Psychoanalytic Association. In 1938, after the German annexation of Austria, the American Psychoanalytic Association established a special committee whose goal was to assist its colleagues to escape from Europe - The Emergency Committee of Relief and Immigration. Dr. Geza Dukes was aided by the committee; yet remained in Hungary and perished in the Holocaust (see enclosed material).
[1] leaf, 33.5 cm. Good condition. Fold lines and creases. Tears along fold lines. Stains. Minor blemishes. The leaf is mounted to paper for reinforcement.
Category
Antisemitism, Holocaust and She'erit HaPletah
Catalogue
Auction 68 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
September 19, 2019
Opening: $1,000
Unsold
The Black Album. Tel-Aviv: The Anti-Nazi League, Series A, April 1940. Hebrew, English and French.
A complete postcard booklet holding ten postcards.
This booklet is a very early public visual documentation, maybe the first of its kind, of Nazi crimes on European soil, especially in Poland.
The Anti-Nazi League, which published the booklet 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 booklet; not only in the photographs printed on the postcards, but also, and especially, in the introduction added by the anti-Nazi league members. Printed on the inside 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 established 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 labor, 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", "Migration of nations into misery", "Nazi victims converted into ashes", and more – and is 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; slave 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.
Booklet: 16X10.5 cm. Postcards: 14X10 cm. Good condition. Two of the postcards are completely detached from the booklet while several others are partly detached. Creases to cover. Several stains on cover and postcards.
Provenance: The Raphael Grünzweig Collection.
A complete postcard booklet holding ten postcards.
This booklet is a very early public visual documentation, maybe the first of its kind, of Nazi crimes on European soil, especially in Poland.
The Anti-Nazi League, which published the booklet 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 booklet; not only in the photographs printed on the postcards, but also, and especially, in the introduction added by the anti-Nazi league members. Printed on the inside 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 established 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 labor, 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", "Migration of nations into misery", "Nazi victims converted into ashes", and more – and is 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; slave 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.
Booklet: 16X10.5 cm. Postcards: 14X10 cm. Good condition. Two of the postcards are completely detached from the booklet while several others are partly detached. Creases to cover. Several stains on cover and postcards.
Provenance: The Raphael Grünzweig Collection.
Category
Antisemitism, Holocaust and She'erit HaPletah
Catalogue
![Album Zbrodni Hitlerowskich w obozach koncentracyjnych [Album of Nazi Crimes in Concentration Camps], photograph booklet. No](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale68-public/231_1.jpg "\"Nazi Crimes in Concentration Camps\" – Photograph Booklet – Lodz, Late")
![Album Zbrodni Hitlerowskich w obozach koncentracyjnych [Album of Nazi Crimes in Concentration Camps], photograph booklet. No](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale68-public/231_2.jpg "\"Nazi Crimes in Concentration Camps\" – Photograph Booklet – Lodz, Late")
Auction 68 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
September 19, 2019
Opening: $500
Sold for: $625
Including buyer's premium
Album Zbrodni Hitlerowskich w obozach koncentracyjnych [Album of Nazi Crimes in Concentration Camps], photograph booklet. No publisher or year indicated. [Lodz]: Zakl. Graf. Spolem Press, [ca. late 1940s]. Polish.
A booklet containing 18 detachable cards with photographs documenting Nazi atrocities during the Holocaust (the photographs are captioned in Polish). Printed on the front cover: "Poznaj prawde Hitlerowskich Niemiec z lat 1939-1945" [Learn the truth about Nazi Germany during the years 1939-1945].
18 cards (attached to each other, accordion folded), 8.5X12 cm, in a printed paper cover. Good overall condition. Stains. A tear along the seam between the two first cards. Damaged cover (with stains, creases and tears); partly detached.
Rare. Only one copy in OCLC.
A booklet containing 18 detachable cards with photographs documenting Nazi atrocities during the Holocaust (the photographs are captioned in Polish). Printed on the front cover: "Poznaj prawde Hitlerowskich Niemiec z lat 1939-1945" [Learn the truth about Nazi Germany during the years 1939-1945].
18 cards (attached to each other, accordion folded), 8.5X12 cm, in a printed paper cover. Good overall condition. Stains. A tear along the seam between the two first cards. Damaged cover (with stains, creases and tears); partly detached.
Rare. Only one copy in OCLC.
Category
Antisemitism, Holocaust and She'erit HaPletah
Catalogue
![Five photographs of members of the Representative Orchestra of the She'erit Hapletah. [Germany, the second half of the 1940s]](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale68-public/232_1.jpg "Five Photographs of the Representative Orchestra of the She'erit Haple")
![Five photographs of members of the Representative Orchestra of the She'erit Hapletah. [Germany, the second half of the 1940s]](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale68-public/232_2.jpg "Five Photographs of the Representative Orchestra of the She'erit Haple")
Auction 68 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
September 19, 2019
Opening: $400
Unsold
Five photographs of members of the Representative Orchestra of the She'erit Hapletah. [Germany, the second half of the 1940s].
The Representative Orchestra of the She'erit Hapletah (also known as "The St. Ottilien Orchestra" and "The Ex-Concentration Camp Orchestra") was an orchestra of Jewish Holocaust survivors from DP camps conducted by Michael (Misha) Hofmekler. The first concert of the orchestra was held in 1945 at the St. Ottilien Monastery in Bavaria, which then served as a hospital and DP camp. From St. Ottilien, the orchestra moved to Landsberg and later expanded, changed its name and played in various locations in the American Zone in Germany. In May 1946, it was invited to play before the prosecutors and staff of the Nuremberg Trials. In May 1948, the orchestra performed in two concerts conducted by the well-known conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein (then the conductor of the Palestine Philharmonic Orchestra). For additional information about the orchestra, see enclosed article: Displaced Music: The Ex-Concentration Camp Orchestra in Postwar Germany, by Abbey Anderton (Journal of Musicological Research, 2015).
Before us are five photographs of the members of the orchestra: four group photographs and a photograph taken during the concert held by the orchestra for the prosecutors of the Nuremberg Trials in 1946. The photographs show members of the orchestra, including the conductor Michael (Misha) Hofmekler, in costumes made especially for their performances – concentration camp uniforms that were sewn for them after their liberation with their prisoner numbers on Stars of David.
5 photographs, approx. 6.5X9 cm. Good condition. A few stains (mostly on verso).
The Representative Orchestra of the She'erit Hapletah (also known as "The St. Ottilien Orchestra" and "The Ex-Concentration Camp Orchestra") was an orchestra of Jewish Holocaust survivors from DP camps conducted by Michael (Misha) Hofmekler. The first concert of the orchestra was held in 1945 at the St. Ottilien Monastery in Bavaria, which then served as a hospital and DP camp. From St. Ottilien, the orchestra moved to Landsberg and later expanded, changed its name and played in various locations in the American Zone in Germany. In May 1946, it was invited to play before the prosecutors and staff of the Nuremberg Trials. In May 1948, the orchestra performed in two concerts conducted by the well-known conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein (then the conductor of the Palestine Philharmonic Orchestra). For additional information about the orchestra, see enclosed article: Displaced Music: The Ex-Concentration Camp Orchestra in Postwar Germany, by Abbey Anderton (Journal of Musicological Research, 2015).
Before us are five photographs of the members of the orchestra: four group photographs and a photograph taken during the concert held by the orchestra for the prosecutors of the Nuremberg Trials in 1946. The photographs show members of the orchestra, including the conductor Michael (Misha) Hofmekler, in costumes made especially for their performances – concentration camp uniforms that were sewn for them after their liberation with their prisoner numbers on Stars of David.
5 photographs, approx. 6.5X9 cm. Good condition. A few stains (mostly on verso).
Category
Antisemitism, Holocaust and She'erit HaPletah
Catalogue
Auction 68 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
September 19, 2019
Opening: $600
Unsold
29 photographs of "She'erit Hapletah" in Europe, including group photographs from DP camps, studio photographs sent to relatives, and more. Germany, Czech Republic, Poland and France, the second half of the 1940s.
Collection of photographs taken in Europe after the Holocaust, including group photographs of survivors in the DP camps and studio photographs. Several of the photographs were printed on postcards and some are captioned on verso or bear handwritten dedications.
Among the photographs: • Seven photographs of survivors in the Zeilsheim (Frankfurt am Mein) DP camp. Six of them bear stamps of local photographers – "Photo Robinson" and "S. Krotman-N. Bykow". • Six group photographs taken in 1947 in the Auschwitz Extermination Camp and near its entrance. Captioned and dated in the plate: "Oświęcim 1947, Fot. Szajnert". • Photograph of a Passover-night table and alongside it, on the wall, a Star of David and the flag of Israel. Captioned on verso in handwriting (Hebrew): "On Leil HaSeder in Calais (France), the Opera Hall, April 1946". • Photographs from the Föhrenwald and Deggendorf DP camps. • Photograph (on a postcard) of a group dancing the Hora. One of them is carrying the Zionist flag. • And more.
29 photographs, approx. 7.5X5.5 cm to 10.5X14.5 cm. Condition varies.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Collection of photographs taken in Europe after the Holocaust, including group photographs of survivors in the DP camps and studio photographs. Several of the photographs were printed on postcards and some are captioned on verso or bear handwritten dedications.
Among the photographs: • Seven photographs of survivors in the Zeilsheim (Frankfurt am Mein) DP camp. Six of them bear stamps of local photographers – "Photo Robinson" and "S. Krotman-N. Bykow". • Six group photographs taken in 1947 in the Auschwitz Extermination Camp and near its entrance. Captioned and dated in the plate: "Oświęcim 1947, Fot. Szajnert". • Photograph of a Passover-night table and alongside it, on the wall, a Star of David and the flag of Israel. Captioned on verso in handwriting (Hebrew): "On Leil HaSeder in Calais (France), the Opera Hall, April 1946". • Photographs from the Föhrenwald and Deggendorf DP camps. • Photograph (on a postcard) of a group dancing the Hora. One of them is carrying the Zionist flag. • And more.
29 photographs, approx. 7.5X5.5 cm to 10.5X14.5 cm. Condition varies.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Category
Antisemitism, Holocaust and She'erit HaPletah
Catalogue
Auction 68 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
September 19, 2019
Opening: $400
Unsold
An album of photographs and documents, which had belonged to Maurice Schellevis (Schellekes). Bavaria, Germany, ca. 1945-46.
Schellevis, born in Zandvoort, Holland, in 1922, was a war prisoner in the Ebensee forced labor camp, near Mauthausen. After the war, he served as an interpreter for the American Army in Bavaria and was appointed Mayor of Riederau am Ammersee in the region of Landsberg, Bavaria. He died in Haifa in 1988.
The album contains approx. 140 photographs, post WW II (some earlier or later photographs and some family photographs) as well as approx. 25 documents, including: a release certificate of a prisoner in the Ebensee forced labor camp (May 1945); certificate issued in Landsberg, certifying that the holder was a political prisoner during the war (August 1945); letter of recommendation certifying that after his release Schellevis worked as an interpreter in a US Army field hospital (October 1945); letter from the Red Cross in Bavaria (December 1945); vehicle license for driving in the American Zone (1946) in Germany; Driving license (Landsberg 1945); temporary ID issued by UNRRA (December 1946); Letter of recommendation written by the director of the Wilheim city theater, April 1946; and other documents. Enclosed: a "U.S Army Interpreter" armband and an additional fabric badge.
Size and condition vary. Album: 30X20 cm. Overall good-fair condition. Most of the documents and photographs are mounted to the pages of the album. Stains. Tears to several documents.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Schellevis, born in Zandvoort, Holland, in 1922, was a war prisoner in the Ebensee forced labor camp, near Mauthausen. After the war, he served as an interpreter for the American Army in Bavaria and was appointed Mayor of Riederau am Ammersee in the region of Landsberg, Bavaria. He died in Haifa in 1988.
The album contains approx. 140 photographs, post WW II (some earlier or later photographs and some family photographs) as well as approx. 25 documents, including: a release certificate of a prisoner in the Ebensee forced labor camp (May 1945); certificate issued in Landsberg, certifying that the holder was a political prisoner during the war (August 1945); letter of recommendation certifying that after his release Schellevis worked as an interpreter in a US Army field hospital (October 1945); letter from the Red Cross in Bavaria (December 1945); vehicle license for driving in the American Zone (1946) in Germany; Driving license (Landsberg 1945); temporary ID issued by UNRRA (December 1946); Letter of recommendation written by the director of the Wilheim city theater, April 1946; and other documents. Enclosed: a "U.S Army Interpreter" armband and an additional fabric badge.
Size and condition vary. Album: 30X20 cm. Overall good-fair condition. Most of the documents and photographs are mounted to the pages of the album. Stains. Tears to several documents.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Category
Antisemitism, Holocaust and She'erit HaPletah
Catalogue
Auction 68 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
September 19, 2019
Opening: $300
Unsold
Three photographs of the Children's Home in Avigliana, Italy – an institution for training children of "She'erit Hapletah" before their immigration to Palestine. [Avigliana, 1947].
Two of the photographs document lessons at the school of the Children's Home; on their verso are printed English information notes issued by the JDC, both dated 4.4.1947, describing the support the organization gave to the Children's Home in Avigliana and to "She'erit Hapletah" in the DP camps. The third photograph, depicting, presumably, three of the members of the staff of the Children's Home, does not bear an information note.
The Children's Home in the city of Avigliana adjacent to Torino, Italy was founded by the "HaShomer Hatza'ir" organization and was active during the years 1946-1948. The institution professionally trained children of "She'erit Hapletah" before their immigration to Palestine. The school of the Children's Home gave Hebrew lessons as well as occupational courses such as carpentry, welding and sewing.
3 photographs, 25.5X20.5 cm. Good condition. A few stains. Minor blemishes and creases. Tears along the edges of one of the photographs, including an open tear (in the corner) and a tear reinforced with tape.
Two of the photographs document lessons at the school of the Children's Home; on their verso are printed English information notes issued by the JDC, both dated 4.4.1947, describing the support the organization gave to the Children's Home in Avigliana and to "She'erit Hapletah" in the DP camps. The third photograph, depicting, presumably, three of the members of the staff of the Children's Home, does not bear an information note.
The Children's Home in the city of Avigliana adjacent to Torino, Italy was founded by the "HaShomer Hatza'ir" organization and was active during the years 1946-1948. The institution professionally trained children of "She'erit Hapletah" before their immigration to Palestine. The school of the Children's Home gave Hebrew lessons as well as occupational courses such as carpentry, welding and sewing.
3 photographs, 25.5X20.5 cm. Good condition. A few stains. Minor blemishes and creases. Tears along the edges of one of the photographs, including an open tear (in the corner) and a tear reinforced with tape.
Category
Antisemitism, Holocaust and She'erit HaPletah
Catalogue
Auction 68 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
September 19, 2019
Opening: $600
Unsold
25 letters, memorandums, invitations, photographs and paper items documenting the activity of soldiers, Jewish organizations and institutions in Italy shortly before the end of World War II and in the years following the war. Ca. 1944-1949.
Among the items:
• Two letters (typewritten and mimeographed) issued by the 179th transport company of the British army, 1943. The letters, presumably sent from Italy to Palestine, contain requests to send textbooks and informational material to be distributed among "She'erit Hapletah" and among Jewish soldiers in the Allies armies.
• "To the children of the Diaspora, a gift for Hanukkah", a booklet in Italian and Hebrew, with illustrations and photographs. The introduction states: "Of late you have gone through terrible suffering. You have been saved yet many are still being tortured […] receive this gift for Hanukkah from Jewish soldiers from Palestine and America" (Hebrew).
• Photographs of a demonstration in Rome. The demonstrators are seen holding flags and signs in Hebrew and Italian calling for free immigration to Palestine. One of the signs reads: "We need no protection by the British Army in Palestine".
• Five invitations to events that took place in Italy: an invitation issued by "The Association for the Hebrew Language and Culture" in Rome, to a gathering of the association (1944); an invitation issued by "The Trumpeldor Alliance in Italy" to "the first conference of the remnants of Betar in Italy" (Rome, 1946); invitation to a Hanukkah ball of the Hebrew school in Rivoli (1947); invitation to a dance, issued by the Chief of the Camp Police in Rivoli (1947. English); and an invitation to a dance of the "HaTikvah" sports club in Cremona (1947. Yiddish).
• Delegate card (Yiddish) of the first conference of Jewish refugees in Italy, issued by the Organization of Refugees in Italy. November, 1945.
• Two "Donation of Trees" certificates and a receipt of the Jewish National Fund, given to the children of the "BaDerech" school in the Terni camp.
• And more.
Size and condition vary.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Among the items:
• Two letters (typewritten and mimeographed) issued by the 179th transport company of the British army, 1943. The letters, presumably sent from Italy to Palestine, contain requests to send textbooks and informational material to be distributed among "She'erit Hapletah" and among Jewish soldiers in the Allies armies.
• "To the children of the Diaspora, a gift for Hanukkah", a booklet in Italian and Hebrew, with illustrations and photographs. The introduction states: "Of late you have gone through terrible suffering. You have been saved yet many are still being tortured […] receive this gift for Hanukkah from Jewish soldiers from Palestine and America" (Hebrew).
• Photographs of a demonstration in Rome. The demonstrators are seen holding flags and signs in Hebrew and Italian calling for free immigration to Palestine. One of the signs reads: "We need no protection by the British Army in Palestine".
• Five invitations to events that took place in Italy: an invitation issued by "The Association for the Hebrew Language and Culture" in Rome, to a gathering of the association (1944); an invitation issued by "The Trumpeldor Alliance in Italy" to "the first conference of the remnants of Betar in Italy" (Rome, 1946); invitation to a Hanukkah ball of the Hebrew school in Rivoli (1947); invitation to a dance, issued by the Chief of the Camp Police in Rivoli (1947. English); and an invitation to a dance of the "HaTikvah" sports club in Cremona (1947. Yiddish).
• Delegate card (Yiddish) of the first conference of Jewish refugees in Italy, issued by the Organization of Refugees in Italy. November, 1945.
• Two "Donation of Trees" certificates and a receipt of the Jewish National Fund, given to the children of the "BaDerech" school in the Terni camp.
• And more.
Size and condition vary.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Category
Antisemitism, Holocaust and She'erit HaPletah
Catalogue
Auction 68 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
September 19, 2019
Opening: $1,500
Unsold
Collection of Letters, documents and other paper items from the estate of Dr. Boris Pliskin related to his activity among "She'erit Hapletah" in the DP camps in Germany, including a report about the situation of "She'erit Hapleta", letters from various aid organizations and a certificate he was awarded for his contribution "to the revival of the physical culture and to the education of She'erit Hapletah youth". Germany and elsewhere, ca. 1946-1948. Yiddish, English and German.
Dr. Boris Pliskin (1908-1959), born in Poland, served as a physician during World War II and was a member of the underground in the Janowska camp in Lviv. Together with a small group he succeeded in escaping to the Carpathian Mountains, where he joined a Soviet partisan unit. After the war, he arrived in Munich and became a prominent figure among "She'erit Hapletah" and displaced persons organizations as well as the Poalei Zion party. He headed the health services of the JOINT in western Germany and was a member of the Central Committee of the Liberated Jews in the American Occupation Zone, within whose framework he founded and coordinated the "Center for Physical Education" in the DP camps. In addition, he chaired the "HaPoel" center in Germany and the "Alliance of Gymnastics and Sports Associations". In 1949, he immigrated to Israel and served as the medical director of the JOINT-Malben in Israel.
The collection contains:
• Several printed documents, including a report about the situation of "She'erit Hapletah" in the DP camps and the activity of Zionist Movements in the camps (Yiddish. Munich, 1947); "Rezalutzies" – a single leaf specifying the resolutions reached during the first conference of "The Jewish Disabled War and Camp Veterans" ("Yiddishe Kriegs un Katzet Invaliden"); and more.
• Handwritten drafts of articles that were presumably published in the "Das Wort" journal.
• Approx. 20 letters (most of them typewritten) sent to Dr. Pliskin by organizations aiding "She'erit Hapletah" after the Holocaust, including letters sent to him by the JOINT, UNRRA, the Federation of Jews from Poland in the U.S. Occupation Zone, the UJA, The Jewish Canadian Congress, Union des Sociétés O.S.E., American OSE Committee, and more.
• Form of Affidavit to be used in lieu of a Passport issued to Pliskin in 1947; with personal details and a photo. Enclosed with the form is an Application for Nonimmigrant Visa to the USA.
• Certificate of appreciation, handwritten and hand-illustrated, awarded to Dr. Pliskin on behalf of the "HaPoel" center in Germany, for his contribution to "the revival of the physical culture and to the education of She'erit Hapletah youth in Germany during the years 1945-1948". Signed by the chairman, the secretary and the sports director. Munich, 1948.
• Dozens of newspaper clippings (most of them in Yiddish) with articles by and about Dr. Pliskin.
• Additional items.
A total of approx. 70 items. Size and condition vary.
For additional items from the estate of Dr. Boris Pliskin, see Kedem catalog no. 41, items 339-342.
Dr. Boris Pliskin (1908-1959), born in Poland, served as a physician during World War II and was a member of the underground in the Janowska camp in Lviv. Together with a small group he succeeded in escaping to the Carpathian Mountains, where he joined a Soviet partisan unit. After the war, he arrived in Munich and became a prominent figure among "She'erit Hapletah" and displaced persons organizations as well as the Poalei Zion party. He headed the health services of the JOINT in western Germany and was a member of the Central Committee of the Liberated Jews in the American Occupation Zone, within whose framework he founded and coordinated the "Center for Physical Education" in the DP camps. In addition, he chaired the "HaPoel" center in Germany and the "Alliance of Gymnastics and Sports Associations". In 1949, he immigrated to Israel and served as the medical director of the JOINT-Malben in Israel.
The collection contains:
• Several printed documents, including a report about the situation of "She'erit Hapletah" in the DP camps and the activity of Zionist Movements in the camps (Yiddish. Munich, 1947); "Rezalutzies" – a single leaf specifying the resolutions reached during the first conference of "The Jewish Disabled War and Camp Veterans" ("Yiddishe Kriegs un Katzet Invaliden"); and more.
• Handwritten drafts of articles that were presumably published in the "Das Wort" journal.
• Approx. 20 letters (most of them typewritten) sent to Dr. Pliskin by organizations aiding "She'erit Hapletah" after the Holocaust, including letters sent to him by the JOINT, UNRRA, the Federation of Jews from Poland in the U.S. Occupation Zone, the UJA, The Jewish Canadian Congress, Union des Sociétés O.S.E., American OSE Committee, and more.
• Form of Affidavit to be used in lieu of a Passport issued to Pliskin in 1947; with personal details and a photo. Enclosed with the form is an Application for Nonimmigrant Visa to the USA.
• Certificate of appreciation, handwritten and hand-illustrated, awarded to Dr. Pliskin on behalf of the "HaPoel" center in Germany, for his contribution to "the revival of the physical culture and to the education of She'erit Hapletah youth in Germany during the years 1945-1948". Signed by the chairman, the secretary and the sports director. Munich, 1948.
• Dozens of newspaper clippings (most of them in Yiddish) with articles by and about Dr. Pliskin.
• Additional items.
A total of approx. 70 items. Size and condition vary.
For additional items from the estate of Dr. Boris Pliskin, see Kedem catalog no. 41, items 339-342.
Category
Antisemitism, Holocaust and She'erit HaPletah
Catalogue
Auction 68 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
September 19, 2019
Opening: $500
Unsold
Six school certificates given to children of "She'erit Hapletah" in Europe: five report cards of Hebrew schools in the DP camps in Germany and Italy and a certificate of a vocational technical school run by UNRRA in Germany, 1947-1948. Hebrew (one card is in English and German).
1-4. Four report cards of schools at DP camps in Germany; written on printed forms of "The Directorate for Education and Culture" of She'erit Hapletah in Germany, 1947-1948. Two of the cards were given to a student of the central school "Tarbut" at the Ulm DP camp, one was given to a student of the "Tarbut" school at the Hofgeismar DP camp and one was given to a student at the "Ivri" school at the Rosenheim DP camp.
5. Report card written on a printed form of the "The Cultural Department of the Center of the Refugee Organization in Italy". Given in 1948 to a student of the Geula Hebrew school at the Barletta DP camp in Italy. With the stamp of the school and the stamp of the "Center of the Refugee Organization in Italy".
6. Certificate issued by the UNRRA Vocational Technical Training School in Mannheim, Germany, 1947. Given to the student Jan Jakubowicz and indicates that he had graduated a course in auto mechanics.
Approx. 26X17.5 cm to 20.5X29.5 cm. Condition varies.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
1-4. Four report cards of schools at DP camps in Germany; written on printed forms of "The Directorate for Education and Culture" of She'erit Hapletah in Germany, 1947-1948. Two of the cards were given to a student of the central school "Tarbut" at the Ulm DP camp, one was given to a student of the "Tarbut" school at the Hofgeismar DP camp and one was given to a student at the "Ivri" school at the Rosenheim DP camp.
5. Report card written on a printed form of the "The Cultural Department of the Center of the Refugee Organization in Italy". Given in 1948 to a student of the Geula Hebrew school at the Barletta DP camp in Italy. With the stamp of the school and the stamp of the "Center of the Refugee Organization in Italy".
6. Certificate issued by the UNRRA Vocational Technical Training School in Mannheim, Germany, 1947. Given to the student Jan Jakubowicz and indicates that he had graduated a course in auto mechanics.
Approx. 26X17.5 cm to 20.5X29.5 cm. Condition varies.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Category
Antisemitism, Holocaust and She'erit HaPletah
Catalogue
Auction 68 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
September 19, 2019
Opening: $700
Unsold
Five passports and certificates issued to Jewish refugees in Europe at the end of WWII and after it; several of them document trips to Palestine. Romania, Italy, France and Germany, 1945-1949.
1. Certificate issued by the Romanian Red Cross (Comité International de la Croix-Rouge Délégation en Roumanie) to Karl Heinz Leipziger, printed in French, Romanian and Russian. The certificate was issued in Bucharest on March 14, 1945, indicating that its owner is a Jewish refugee from Germany looking for refuge in Romania and is under the protection of the Red Cross.
2. Travel certificate issued by the representative of the State of Israel in Bucharest ("The Special Representative to Bucharest") to Karl Heinz Leipziger. Issued in December 1948; valid for a single trip to Israel. Signed by the "special representative of the Israeli government to Bucharest".
3. Passport issued by the Red Cross (printed in seven languages) to Hersch Tyk. Issued in Rome in February 1948, indicating that its owner is requesting to immigrate to Palestine. With a passport photo, fingerprint, and official Red Cross and "International Refugee Organization" stamps.
4. French Identity card and travel document (France Titre d'Identité et de Voyage) issued to Tauba Borensztajn. The certificate bears confirmations, postage stamps and visas documenting her trips to England and Israel (the visa to Israel is dated May 1949).
5. Temporary Travel Document in lieu of passport for stateless persons and persons of undetermined nationality, a certificate issued by the Military Government for Germany (after its conquest by the Allies at the end of World War II); issued in Bad Salzuflen on April 14, 1949. With a passport photo, British visa to Israel and stamps indicating entrance to Israel.
Size and condition vary. Good-fair overall condition.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
1. Certificate issued by the Romanian Red Cross (Comité International de la Croix-Rouge Délégation en Roumanie) to Karl Heinz Leipziger, printed in French, Romanian and Russian. The certificate was issued in Bucharest on March 14, 1945, indicating that its owner is a Jewish refugee from Germany looking for refuge in Romania and is under the protection of the Red Cross.
2. Travel certificate issued by the representative of the State of Israel in Bucharest ("The Special Representative to Bucharest") to Karl Heinz Leipziger. Issued in December 1948; valid for a single trip to Israel. Signed by the "special representative of the Israeli government to Bucharest".
3. Passport issued by the Red Cross (printed in seven languages) to Hersch Tyk. Issued in Rome in February 1948, indicating that its owner is requesting to immigrate to Palestine. With a passport photo, fingerprint, and official Red Cross and "International Refugee Organization" stamps.
4. French Identity card and travel document (France Titre d'Identité et de Voyage) issued to Tauba Borensztajn. The certificate bears confirmations, postage stamps and visas documenting her trips to England and Israel (the visa to Israel is dated May 1949).
5. Temporary Travel Document in lieu of passport for stateless persons and persons of undetermined nationality, a certificate issued by the Military Government for Germany (after its conquest by the Allies at the end of World War II); issued in Bad Salzuflen on April 14, 1949. With a passport photo, British visa to Israel and stamps indicating entrance to Israel.
Size and condition vary. Good-fair overall condition.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Category
Antisemitism, Holocaust and She'erit HaPletah
Catalogue
Auction 68 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
September 19, 2019
Opening: $2,000
Unsold
26 identity cards, certificates and documents, printed and filled-in by hand, which had belonged to Jews in the DP camps in Europe after the Holocaust. Austria, Germany and France, 1945-1948. English, German, French, Russian and other languages.
Appearing on many of the certificates and documents are stamps of aid organizations, pictures of the survivors and information about their situation and past (age, country of origin, marital status, the camps to which they were sent during the war, and more). Among the items: • A temporary identity card for ex-prisoners of the Mauthhausen concentration camp. Issued in the city of Linz in 1945. • Temporary Registration document issued by the Military Government for Germany to a Jewish resident of Munich (printed on verso of a war-time map, due to lack of paper). 1945. • Special identity card (Sonderausweis) issued to victims of political persecution, entitling its owner to receive food and housing assistance. Herne (Germany), 1947. • Certificate issued by the American military government at the Deggendorf DP camp. Indicating its owner was a prisoner at the Gross-Rosen and Auschwitz camps. 1946. • Identity card issued by the UNRRA office at the Zeilsheim (Germany) DP camp. 1946. • And more.
A total of 26 items. Size and condition vary. Good-fair overall condition.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Appearing on many of the certificates and documents are stamps of aid organizations, pictures of the survivors and information about their situation and past (age, country of origin, marital status, the camps to which they were sent during the war, and more). Among the items: • A temporary identity card for ex-prisoners of the Mauthhausen concentration camp. Issued in the city of Linz in 1945. • Temporary Registration document issued by the Military Government for Germany to a Jewish resident of Munich (printed on verso of a war-time map, due to lack of paper). 1945. • Special identity card (Sonderausweis) issued to victims of political persecution, entitling its owner to receive food and housing assistance. Herne (Germany), 1947. • Certificate issued by the American military government at the Deggendorf DP camp. Indicating its owner was a prisoner at the Gross-Rosen and Auschwitz camps. 1946. • Identity card issued by the UNRRA office at the Zeilsheim (Germany) DP camp. 1946. • And more.
A total of 26 items. Size and condition vary. Good-fair overall condition.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Category
Antisemitism, Holocaust and She'erit HaPletah
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