Zur Erinnerung an den Tendenzprozesz von Tisza-Eszlár [In memory of the biased trial of Tisza-Eszlár]. Published by J. Kleinberger; Kellner u. Mohrlüder Press, Budapest, [ca. 1883]. German. Lithograph after Alfons Giehsz.
Lithographic print - portraits of the five defense attorneys who took part in the defense of the Jews accused of the blood libel in the village of Tiszaeszlár in eastern Hungary in 1882. In the center, portrait of the chief defense lawyer, Eötvös Károly, and around it portraits of the defense attorneys Alexander Funták, Bernhardt Friedmann, Max Szekely and Ignatz Heumann. Printed beneath the portraits is the inscription "In memory of the biased trial of Tisza-Eszlár 1883. The portraits of the acclaimed defense attorneys".
The blood libel known as the Tiszaeszlár Affair occurred in the Hungarian village of Tiszaeszlár in 1882, after a Christian girl named Eszter Solymosi disappeared from her home several days before Passover, and did not return. Fifteen Jews were accused of abducting and murdering the girl, and in summer of 1882 they were brought to trial. Their defense was led by the attorney, journalist and member of Hungarian parliament Eötvös Károly, who worked tirelessly to prove their innocence. Eventually, in August 1883, the defendants were cleared of all charges.
46.5X61.5 cm. Fair-good condition. Many stains, including dampstains. Tears and minor creases to edges. Long tear (approx. 16 cm.) to lower part.
Rare.

Printed certificate, confirmation of transfer of funds to the "Ha'avara" company, owned jointly by the Anglo-Palestine Bank, Bank of the Temple Society and the Jewish Agency, with handwritten details and stamps of the Bank of the Temple Society. 1935. English.
The Ha'avara Agreement ("transfer agreement") was signed in 1933 between the government of Nazi Germany and the Jewish Agency, with the aim of transferring the possessions and capital of German Jews to Palestine. Within the framework of the agreement, wealthy German Jews, planning to emigrate to Palestine, transferred their money to one of three mediating companies ("HaNote'ah", Anglo-Palestine Bank or"Ha'avara") and they in turn transferred it to companies in Palestine, with a promise to purchase only German goods. After the immigrants arrived to Palestine, two thirds of their original funds were returned to them.
The agreement caused a major controversy in the Jewish community in Palestine and in the Diaspora, as many questioned the moral propriety of negotiating with the Nazis and the economic gain to be derived there from.
[1] f, 22.5X24 cm. Good condition. Fold lines and creases. Filing holes. Minor stains.

Jak zapobiegać chorobom zakaźnym i jak je zwalczać? [How to prevent and fight Infectious diseases?], by Dr. Stefania Silberberg. Krakow: Żydowska Samopomoc Społeczna [ZSS – Jewish Social Self-Help organization], 1941. Polish.
Jewish medicine in the ghettoes is considered a one-time phenomenon in history – the establishment of a health system by persecuted victims under the threat of death. Immediately after the establishment of the first ghettos, Jewish physicians (whose percentage in the population was very high – approximately 40% of all Polish physicians on the eve of the war were Jewish) started setting up an extensive health system and before long established an efficient, disciplined infrastructure: hospitals, family healthcare centers, women's and children's medicine, social medicine, pharmacies, medical schools and even research labs.
Throughout the years of the ghettos' existence, right up to their destruction, most of the Jewish physicians continued working, providing their services to the inmates of the ghetto, even when the mortality rate of the physicians, who contracted contagious diseases, reached 20 percent.
This rare booklet provides important documentation of medical activity in the ghettos: a healthcare manual for the Jews of the ghetto, written by a Jewish physician in the Krakow ghetto. The manual, published by the JSS organization (JSS – J üdische Soziale Selbsthilfe, the only Jewish help organization given Nazi permission to operate in the Generalgouvernement area), is one of the only publications printed by Jews in the ghettos with permission (the German authorities forbade almost every Jewish publication in the area of occupied Poland). As early as June 1941, JSS representatives requested German authorities for special permission to print 50,000 copies, and after several months received a limited approval to print 10,000 copies to be distributed through the branches of the organization in the various ghettos (see enclosed material).
The manual begins with a short introduction on the subject of bacteria, epidemics and vaccines, followed by three chapters dedicated each to a different disease: Typhus fever (Tyfus plamisty), Typhoid (Tyfus Brzuszny) and Dysentery (Czerwonka) – three common diseases that killed thousands of the Jews in ghettos throughout the war.
The author, physician Stefania Silberberg, is mentioned in several listings on the "Yad Vashem" and the United State Holocaust Memorial Museum websites, and in a list of deceased from Krakow printed in the medical journal Przeglad Lekarski (issue no. 1, July 1945). The listings indicate that Stefania was born in 1898 in Krakow to parents named Hermann and Adela and was a bacteriologist by training. In 1942 she was presumably sent to her death at the Belzec or Treblinka extermination camp.
Rare booklet. Not in OCLC.
14 pp, approx. 23 cm. Good condition. A few stains and blemishes, mostly to cover. Rusty staples.

Nine aluminum and aluminum-magnesium coins, used as currency in the Lodz Ghetto. Poland, 1942-1943.
1. A 10 Pfennig coin, 1942. Obverse: denomination – the digit "10", legend "Der Aelteste der Juden" and a Star of David bordered by two oak tree leaves. Reverse: legend "Litzmannstadt Getto 1942" with a Star of David in the center, decorated with corn cobs.
This coin is of a model issued in the Lodz Ghetto, yet archived when the chief of German Nazi administration of the Lodz Ghetto, Hans Biebow, ordered Chaim Rumkowski to remove the oak leaves and corn cobs from the coin, and change the design of the digit "10" to differentiate it from the design on German coins.
2-4. Three 5 Mark coins, 1943. Obverse: the denomination; a legend across, "Quittung Über"; and a legend on the perimeter, "Der Aelteste der Juden in Litzmannstadt". Reverse: A Star of David, the word "GETTO" and the year 1943.
5-8. Four 10 Mark coins, 1943. Obverse: the denomination; a legend across, "Quittung Über"; and a legend on the perimeter, "Der Aelteste der Juden in Litzmannstadt". Reverse: A Star of David, the word "GETTO" and the year 1943.
9. A 20 Mark coin, 1943. Obverse: the denomination; a legend across, "Quittung Über"; and a legend on the perimeter, "Der Aelteste der Juden in Litzmannstadt". Reverse: A Star of David, the word "GETTO" and the year 1943.
Enclosed: a copy of the 10 Mark coin from the Lodz Ghetto (late minting), with the word "souvenir" impressed obverse.
Size and condition vary.
Provenance: The Morton Leventhal Collection, New York.

Igazolvány, employment confirmation given to Szidónia Feldmann by the international committee of the Red Cross in Hungary (Comité international de la Croix-Rouge, Délégation en Hongrie). Budapest, October 1944. Hungarian.
A confirmation, typewritten in the official stationery of the Red Cross organization in Hungary, indicating that Szidónia Feldmann, daughter of Veronika Márkusz, who was born in Bonyhád, is employed as a clerk at the food warehouse of the Red Cross in Hungary, and requesting the authorities to assist her in her work. With a photograph of the owner of the document (stapled), two stamps of the Red Cross and the handwritten signature of the representative of the organization.
The name Szidónia Feldmann (with her mother's name and her city of birth which appear on the certificate) appears in the database of the USA Holocaust memorial Museum, as a survivor from Budapest.
[1] f, 21 cm. Good condition. Fold lines. Creases and small tears along edges and fold lines. Minor stains.