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Auction 80 - Part I - Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
June 29, 2021
Opening: $300
Sold for: $1,000
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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.
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.
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Auction 80 - Part I - Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
June 29, 2021
Opening: $400
Sold for: $575
Including buyer's premium
Two small Bakelite buttons shaped like a Star of David, which were used to identify Jews in Bulgaria during the Holocaust. [Bulgaria, ca. 1942].
Two small buttons shaped like a Star of David. Bulgarian Jews were required to wear an identifying mark since August 1942, with the publication of the amendment of the Bulgarian racial laws in 1941 (The Law for Protection of the Nation). Unlike other countries, Bulgaria did not stipulate fabric identifying marks but rather buttons, that were sewn to the lapel of the shirt.
3.5X3.5 cm. Good condition. Minor blemishes. A small piece is missing from one of the buttons.
Enclosed: Approx. 140 photographs (most of them arranged in an album), presumably of a Bulgarian family that immigrated to Palestine. One of the photographs depicts a man and woman wearing Star of David buttons (presumably, the one before us). Some of the photographs are hand-captioned on verso.
Two small buttons shaped like a Star of David. Bulgarian Jews were required to wear an identifying mark since August 1942, with the publication of the amendment of the Bulgarian racial laws in 1941 (The Law for Protection of the Nation). Unlike other countries, Bulgaria did not stipulate fabric identifying marks but rather buttons, that were sewn to the lapel of the shirt.
3.5X3.5 cm. Good condition. Minor blemishes. A small piece is missing from one of the buttons.
Enclosed: Approx. 140 photographs (most of them arranged in an album), presumably of a Bulgarian family that immigrated to Palestine. One of the photographs depicts a man and woman wearing Star of David buttons (presumably, the one before us). Some of the photographs are hand-captioned on verso.
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Auction 80 - Part I - Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
June 29, 2021
Opening: $400
Sold for: $500
Including buyer's premium
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.
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.
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![Protective letter [Schutzbrief] issued by the Swiss Embassy in Budapest for a Jewish Woman named Szidónia Feldmann on 23.10.1](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale80a-public/196.jpg "Protective Letter Issued by the Swiss Embassy in Budapest, which Opera")
Auction 80 - Part I - Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
June 29, 2021
Opening: $200
Sold for: $425
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Protective letter [Schutzbrief] issued by the Swiss Embassy in Budapest for a Jewish Woman named Szidónia Feldmann on 23.10.1944. German and Hungarian.
The letter is typewritten in German and Hungarian on the official stationery of the Department of Foreign Interests of the Swiss Embassy (Schweizerische Gesandtschaft, Abteilung für fremde Interessen), which was directed by the diplomat Carl Lutz, confirming that the name of its bearer was included in a collective Swiss passport.
Swiss diplomat Carl Lutz (1895-1975) was appointed Swiss vice-consul in Budapest, in charge of foreign interests, in 1942. He worked to hasten Jews' departure of Hungary, whose borders were still open; shortly before the Nazi occupation of Hungary he started issuing protective letters (Schutzpass) – an idea conceived by Miklos Moshe Krausz, director of the Palestine Office in Budapest – providing diplomatic protection to Jews who were candidates for immigration (the idea of protective letters was later adopted by other diplomats, saving the lives of many Jews). Lutz worked relentlessly to protect Hungarian Jews and remained in Budapest during the siege of the city. He returned to Switzerland only in 1945, after Budapest was occupied by the Red Army. He was honored as Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem in 1965.
Szidónia Feldmann, to whom the protective letter was given, worked as a clerk at the food warehouse of the Hungarian Red Cross (See previous item).
[1] leaf, 29 cm. Good condition. Stains. Fold lines. Tears and small creases.
The letter is typewritten in German and Hungarian on the official stationery of the Department of Foreign Interests of the Swiss Embassy (Schweizerische Gesandtschaft, Abteilung für fremde Interessen), which was directed by the diplomat Carl Lutz, confirming that the name of its bearer was included in a collective Swiss passport.
Swiss diplomat Carl Lutz (1895-1975) was appointed Swiss vice-consul in Budapest, in charge of foreign interests, in 1942. He worked to hasten Jews' departure of Hungary, whose borders were still open; shortly before the Nazi occupation of Hungary he started issuing protective letters (Schutzpass) – an idea conceived by Miklos Moshe Krausz, director of the Palestine Office in Budapest – providing diplomatic protection to Jews who were candidates for immigration (the idea of protective letters was later adopted by other diplomats, saving the lives of many Jews). Lutz worked relentlessly to protect Hungarian Jews and remained in Budapest during the siege of the city. He returned to Switzerland only in 1945, after Budapest was occupied by the Red Army. He was honored as Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem in 1965.
Szidónia Feldmann, to whom the protective letter was given, worked as a clerk at the food warehouse of the Hungarian Red Cross (See previous item).
[1] leaf, 29 cm. Good condition. Stains. Fold lines. Tears and small creases.
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Auction 80 - Part I - Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
June 29, 2021
Opening: $400
Sold for: $750
Including buyer's premium
Through the Night, a Story without Words, 20 Original Lino-Cuts by Erich Glas. Johannesburg (South Africa): Anthony's, [1943 (dated in pencil: 1942)]. English. Limited edition, signed by Glas.
Portfolio with 20 linocuts by Ari Glas, from the series Through the Night, with a foreword by Eric Rosenthal. The series Through the Night, depicting the destruction of European Jewry, was created by Glas in 1942, in Kibbutz Yagur. His granddaughter Hagar Lev recalled its creation: "In the winter of 1942, burning with high fever, a Bauhaus artist hallucinates in his sleep. He envisions unspeakable horrors: oppression, mass killing and incomprehensible horrors taking place in Europe. Still feverish, he starts making sketches…".
Glas wanted to publish the series in Palestine; however, the publishing houses which he approached turned him down, fearing the prints will cause panic. Consequently, he published the series in South Africa, in English (the Hebrew edition was eventually published only ca. 1945).
Only 200 copies of the portfolio were printed. This copy is unnumbered. All 20 prints are signed in pencil by Glas. His signature also appears on the second page: "Ari Glas 1942" (Hebrew).
Ari Glas (born Erich Glas; 1897-1973), an Israeli painter, graphic designer and photographer, born in Berlin. During World War I he served as a pilot in the German Army. In the years 1919-1920, he studied at the Bauhaus school (one of his teachers being Lyonel Feininger), specializing in woodcuts and linocuts. Following the Nazi party's rise to power he immigrated to Palestine and settled in Kibbutz Yagur, where he continued his artistic work. In Israel he Hebraized his name, and joined the Haganah (in whose service he even conducted reconnaissance flights). After the establishment of the State of Israel, he displayed his works in several group exhibitions and illustrated a number of books, including Aesop's Fables, "The Nightingale" (Hebrew) by Hans Christian Andersen, the Kibbutz Yagur Haggadah and more.
[3]; [20] leaves, 32 cm. Original paper portfolio, printed. Good condition. Minor stains, mostly to first leaves, and several small tears to edges. Stains and small tears to the portfolio (to edges and spine).
Not in OCLC.
Portfolio with 20 linocuts by Ari Glas, from the series Through the Night, with a foreword by Eric Rosenthal. The series Through the Night, depicting the destruction of European Jewry, was created by Glas in 1942, in Kibbutz Yagur. His granddaughter Hagar Lev recalled its creation: "In the winter of 1942, burning with high fever, a Bauhaus artist hallucinates in his sleep. He envisions unspeakable horrors: oppression, mass killing and incomprehensible horrors taking place in Europe. Still feverish, he starts making sketches…".
Glas wanted to publish the series in Palestine; however, the publishing houses which he approached turned him down, fearing the prints will cause panic. Consequently, he published the series in South Africa, in English (the Hebrew edition was eventually published only ca. 1945).
Only 200 copies of the portfolio were printed. This copy is unnumbered. All 20 prints are signed in pencil by Glas. His signature also appears on the second page: "Ari Glas 1942" (Hebrew).
Ari Glas (born Erich Glas; 1897-1973), an Israeli painter, graphic designer and photographer, born in Berlin. During World War I he served as a pilot in the German Army. In the years 1919-1920, he studied at the Bauhaus school (one of his teachers being Lyonel Feininger), specializing in woodcuts and linocuts. Following the Nazi party's rise to power he immigrated to Palestine and settled in Kibbutz Yagur, where he continued his artistic work. In Israel he Hebraized his name, and joined the Haganah (in whose service he even conducted reconnaissance flights). After the establishment of the State of Israel, he displayed his works in several group exhibitions and illustrated a number of books, including Aesop's Fables, "The Nightingale" (Hebrew) by Hans Christian Andersen, the Kibbutz Yagur Haggadah and more.
[3]; [20] leaves, 32 cm. Original paper portfolio, printed. Good condition. Minor stains, mostly to first leaves, and several small tears to edges. Stains and small tears to the portfolio (to edges and spine).
Not in OCLC.
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![1944, Áldor Péter rajzai, Fodor József előszavával [1944, drawings by Péter Áldor, with a foreword by József Fodor]. Budapest](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale80a-public/198_1.jpg "\"1944\" – Drawings by Péter Áldor – Budapest, 1945 – Early Documentatio")
![1944, Áldor Péter rajzai, Fodor József előszavával [1944, drawings by Péter Áldor, with a foreword by József Fodor]. Budapest](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale80a-public/198_2.jpg "\"1944\" – Drawings by Péter Áldor – Budapest, 1945 – Early Documentatio")
Auction 80 - Part I - Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
June 29, 2021
Opening: $300
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1944, Áldor Péter rajzai, Fodor József előszavával [1944, drawings by Péter Áldor, with a foreword by József Fodor]. Budapest: Független Magyarország, [1945]. Hungarian.
Booklet with eighteen drawings (plates; captioned in Hungarian) documenting the atrocities of the Holocaust, by Jewish-Hungarian Holocaust survivor Péter Áldor (1904-1976). The booklet begins with a printed dedication by the artist to two of his friends – writer and historian Antal Szerb and writer and journalist Vághidi Ferenc – and with a forward by poet and translator József Fodor (1898-1973).
Original cover, showing a drawing featured in the booklet ("Epilogue, Lott") with the title "1944" in red.
[22] ff. (18 plates), approx. 29 cm. Good condition. Some minor stains. Cover slightly loose. Stains, creases and minor wear to cover. Small open tears to spine.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Booklet with eighteen drawings (plates; captioned in Hungarian) documenting the atrocities of the Holocaust, by Jewish-Hungarian Holocaust survivor Péter Áldor (1904-1976). The booklet begins with a printed dedication by the artist to two of his friends – writer and historian Antal Szerb and writer and journalist Vághidi Ferenc – and with a forward by poet and translator József Fodor (1898-1973).
Original cover, showing a drawing featured in the booklet ("Epilogue, Lott") with the title "1944" in red.
[22] ff. (18 plates), approx. 29 cm. Good condition. Some minor stains. Cover slightly loose. Stains, creases and minor wear to cover. Small open tears to spine.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
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Auction 80 - Part I - Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
June 29, 2021
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Survivants eaux-fortes et pointes sèches originales de Monique Frélaut, présentées par Yanka Zlatin et Dorine Mantoux. [Survivors, Etchings and Drypoints by Monique Frélaut. published by Yanka Zlatin and Dorine Mantoux]. Paris, 1945. French.
Portfolio with 30 prints by Monique Frélaut (1912-1946) – portraits of Holocaust survivors at the French Hôtel Lutetia (one of the luxury hotels of Paris, which after the war was converted, by order of Charles de Gaulle, into a shelter for Holocaust survivors). The prints document the survivors on arrival, some still wearing camp uniform.
29 printed portraits on loose sheets (with tissue guards) and a single portrait printed on the card cover. A copy signed by the artist and numbered 78 (of an edition of 375 copies).
The portfolio was published by the Hôtel Lutetia shelter managers, French Resistance fighters Sabine Zlatin and Dorine Mantoux (referred to on the colophon by their underground names: Yanka and Dorine). Printed dedicatory text to one sheet: "To the friends who were killed by enemy bullets, who were cruelly destroyed, who were starved to death, we dedicate this collection to their mothers, widows, sons and daughters, and to all those who loved them and fought beside them for the same cause and ideal – freedom" (French).
Only a few works by artist Monique Frélaut are known of. According to the Bibliothèque nationale de France records, Frélaut was born in 1912 in Nice and died in 1946 in El Ksiba, Morocco. Her uncle was the artist Jean Frélaut (1879-1954).
[29] sheets (some folded in half), 28 cm. Original card cover, with a print. Good condition. Minor blemishes (mainly to tissue guards; prints clean). Cover slightly worn. Browning to spine. Tear to inner front hinge.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Portfolio with 30 prints by Monique Frélaut (1912-1946) – portraits of Holocaust survivors at the French Hôtel Lutetia (one of the luxury hotels of Paris, which after the war was converted, by order of Charles de Gaulle, into a shelter for Holocaust survivors). The prints document the survivors on arrival, some still wearing camp uniform.
29 printed portraits on loose sheets (with tissue guards) and a single portrait printed on the card cover. A copy signed by the artist and numbered 78 (of an edition of 375 copies).
The portfolio was published by the Hôtel Lutetia shelter managers, French Resistance fighters Sabine Zlatin and Dorine Mantoux (referred to on the colophon by their underground names: Yanka and Dorine). Printed dedicatory text to one sheet: "To the friends who were killed by enemy bullets, who were cruelly destroyed, who were starved to death, we dedicate this collection to their mothers, widows, sons and daughters, and to all those who loved them and fought beside them for the same cause and ideal – freedom" (French).
Only a few works by artist Monique Frélaut are known of. According to the Bibliothèque nationale de France records, Frélaut was born in 1912 in Nice and died in 1946 in El Ksiba, Morocco. Her uncle was the artist Jean Frélaut (1879-1954).
[29] sheets (some folded in half), 28 cm. Original card cover, with a print. Good condition. Minor blemishes (mainly to tissue guards; prints clean). Cover slightly worn. Browning to spine. Tear to inner front hinge.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
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Antisemitism, the Holocaust and Sh'erit ha-Pletah
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Auction 80 - Part I - Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
June 29, 2021
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Sold for: $750
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"Yizkor 1939-1945". Poster Illustrated by Pinchas Schuldenrein (signed in the plate). Zeilsheim (Germany): P. Schuldenrein, [ca. 1946]. Hebrew.
Impressive color illustration, showing the number 6,000,000 and two memorial candles soaking in blood, with images of the atrocities of the holocaust. The caption beneath the illustration reads: "When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them" (Psalms 9:13).
The artist Pinchas Shuldenrein was born in Poland and studied in the Warsaw Art Academy. After the Holocaust, he opened a studio outside the Zeilsheim DP Camp with the assistance of the Joint, and there he created this poster. Shuldenrein taught art to children in DP camps and created works inspired by the Holocaust. In 1947 he moved to the USA, settled in New York and a couple of years later changed his name to Paul Sharon. He worked as a graphic designer in New York until his death in 1998.
37.5X51.5 cm. Fair condition. Fold lines, creases and stains. Tears to edges, slightly affecting illustration. Abrasions and minor blemishes to illustration. Traces of mounting to verso.
Impressive color illustration, showing the number 6,000,000 and two memorial candles soaking in blood, with images of the atrocities of the holocaust. The caption beneath the illustration reads: "When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them" (Psalms 9:13).
The artist Pinchas Shuldenrein was born in Poland and studied in the Warsaw Art Academy. After the Holocaust, he opened a studio outside the Zeilsheim DP Camp with the assistance of the Joint, and there he created this poster. Shuldenrein taught art to children in DP camps and created works inspired by the Holocaust. In 1947 he moved to the USA, settled in New York and a couple of years later changed his name to Paul Sharon. He worked as a graphic designer in New York until his death in 1998.
37.5X51.5 cm. Fair condition. Fold lines, creases and stains. Tears to edges, slightly affecting illustration. Abrasions and minor blemishes to illustration. Traces of mounting to verso.
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![Eleven issues of the journal "Oyfgang" [Sunrise]. Warsaw, 1947-1949. Yiddish and some Polish. Eleven issues of Oyfgang - the](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale80a-public/201_1.jpg "Oyfgang – Youth Journal for Sh'erit ha-Pletah in Poland – Warsaw, 1947")
![Eleven issues of the journal "Oyfgang" [Sunrise]. Warsaw, 1947-1949. Yiddish and some Polish. Eleven issues of Oyfgang - the](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale80a-public/201_2.jpg "Oyfgang – Youth Journal for Sh'erit ha-Pletah in Poland – Warsaw, 1947")
Auction 80 - Part I - Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
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Eleven issues of the journal "Oyfgang" [Sunrise]. Warsaw, 1947-1949. Yiddish and some Polish.
Eleven issues of Oyfgang - the Organ of the Youth Dept. of the Central Committee of Polish Jews (Centraler Komitet fun di yidn in Poyln), the organization that represented Polish Jews in the second half of the 1940s.
• issue no. 4, 1947. • Issues 7-8 and issues 9-12, 1948. • Issues no. 1-4 and issues no. 5-6, 1949.
The issues cover various matters: the 30th anniversary of the October Revolution; the Jewish resistance during the Holocaust; the establishment of the monument in memory of the fighters of the Warsaw Ghetto; the War of Independence in Palestine; matters of the Jewish community in Poland and world Jewry; local and global politics; Jewish culture; sports and more. Each issue also contains poems, riddles and jokes.
The issues include photographs and illustrations. Impressive color illustrations on front covers, including illustrations in the style of Social Realism by S. Fogelman and by communist artist Lea Grundig.
11 issues, approx. 34 cm. Condition varies. Good-fair overall condition.
Eleven issues of Oyfgang - the Organ of the Youth Dept. of the Central Committee of Polish Jews (Centraler Komitet fun di yidn in Poyln), the organization that represented Polish Jews in the second half of the 1940s.
• issue no. 4, 1947. • Issues 7-8 and issues 9-12, 1948. • Issues no. 1-4 and issues no. 5-6, 1949.
The issues cover various matters: the 30th anniversary of the October Revolution; the Jewish resistance during the Holocaust; the establishment of the monument in memory of the fighters of the Warsaw Ghetto; the War of Independence in Palestine; matters of the Jewish community in Poland and world Jewry; local and global politics; Jewish culture; sports and more. Each issue also contains poems, riddles and jokes.
The issues include photographs and illustrations. Impressive color illustrations on front covers, including illustrations in the style of Social Realism by S. Fogelman and by communist artist Lea Grundig.
11 issues, approx. 34 cm. Condition varies. Good-fair overall condition.
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Auction 80 - Part I - Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
June 29, 2021
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Collection of photographs of members of Zionist youth movements and residents of DP camps in Europe; presumably, taken by Micha Paz – a Holocaust survivor who escaped from Germany to Palestine, joined the British Army and returned to Europe as a soldier of the Jewish Brigade. Bergen Belsen, Hamburg, Lodz, Lower Silesia and elsewhere, 1946-1947 (one photograph is from 1948).
36 photographs: trainees of a Nocham ("No'ar Chalutzi Meuchad", United Pioneer Youth) seminar dancing the Horah (1946); a trip of the children of the "Children's Home in Blankenese" (Hamburg, 1946); varied pictures from the Bergen Belsen DP camp (the Jewish school, a festive diner, a gym class for girls); the trainees of a seminar in Lodz; and more. One of the photographs depicts members of youth movements at Cyprus internment camps (1948).
Micha Paz was born in Berlin in 1924. In 1940 he escaped via the Austrian border to Yugoslavia, as part of an operation organized by Recha Freier, and eventually reached Palestine through Greece, Turkey and Lebanon. In Palestine, he joined the British Army, was sent to Italy, and fought in the Jewish Brigade. After the war he remained in Europe under an alias, working as a representative of the Haganah to locate Holocaust survivors and prepare them for immigration to Palestine.
Approx. half of the photographs are captioned and dated by hand (Hebrew and English). One photograph is stamped with Micha Paz's stamp.
36 photographs. Size and condition vary. Good overall condition. Stains, creases and blemishes. Small tears to margins. An open tear to the corner of one of the photographs (slightly affecting the picture).
Enclosed: • Yashresh, by Recha Freier (Tel-Aviv: Tamar, [1953?]). Inscribed: "To Micha Paz, with friendship, Recha Freier" (Hebrew). • A personal details form (presumably, for an applicant for the Israeli civil service), filled-in by Paz, with his personal details and résumé.
36 photographs: trainees of a Nocham ("No'ar Chalutzi Meuchad", United Pioneer Youth) seminar dancing the Horah (1946); a trip of the children of the "Children's Home in Blankenese" (Hamburg, 1946); varied pictures from the Bergen Belsen DP camp (the Jewish school, a festive diner, a gym class for girls); the trainees of a seminar in Lodz; and more. One of the photographs depicts members of youth movements at Cyprus internment camps (1948).
Micha Paz was born in Berlin in 1924. In 1940 he escaped via the Austrian border to Yugoslavia, as part of an operation organized by Recha Freier, and eventually reached Palestine through Greece, Turkey and Lebanon. In Palestine, he joined the British Army, was sent to Italy, and fought in the Jewish Brigade. After the war he remained in Europe under an alias, working as a representative of the Haganah to locate Holocaust survivors and prepare them for immigration to Palestine.
Approx. half of the photographs are captioned and dated by hand (Hebrew and English). One photograph is stamped with Micha Paz's stamp.
36 photographs. Size and condition vary. Good overall condition. Stains, creases and blemishes. Small tears to margins. An open tear to the corner of one of the photographs (slightly affecting the picture).
Enclosed: • Yashresh, by Recha Freier (Tel-Aviv: Tamar, [1953?]). Inscribed: "To Micha Paz, with friendship, Recha Freier" (Hebrew). • A personal details form (presumably, for an applicant for the Israeli civil service), filled-in by Paz, with his personal details and résumé.
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Antisemitism, the Holocaust and Sh'erit ha-Pletah
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!["HaChayil" ]The Corps[, "daily newspaper for Hebrew soldiers" (Hebrew). The last 103 issues (numbered 551-653); with a celebr](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale80a-public/203_1.jpg "\"HaChayil\" – The Newspaper of the Jewish Brigade in Europe – Last 103")
!["HaChayil" ]The Corps[, "daily newspaper for Hebrew soldiers" (Hebrew). The last 103 issues (numbered 551-653); with a celebr](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale80a-public/203_2.jpg "\"HaChayil\" – The Newspaper of the Jewish Brigade in Europe – Last 103")
Auction 80 - Part I - Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
June 29, 2021
Opening: $400
Sold for: $525
Including buyer's premium
"HaChayil" ]The Corps[, "daily newspaper for Hebrew soldiers" (Hebrew). The last 103 issues (numbered 551-653); with a celebratory edition of issue no. 1 in honor of the disbandment of the Brigade and the end of the newspaper. "Western Europe" [presumably Brussels], February-June 1946.
The issues contain an important documentation of the soldiers' life in Europe, their encounters with She'erit Hapletah and the changes that occurred in Palestine and the world after the war (reports from commissions of the UN, news on the subject of settlement and Aliyah, testimonies and updates on the state of the DP camps, soldiers' letters, poems and literary passages, and more). Many of the issues contain pictures from Palestine and the rest of the world, illustrations, caricatures and maps.
Bound in two volumes, with printed labels featuring the newspaper's logo (the numbers of the issues are typewritten on the labels).
Enclosed: "LaChayal" [for the soldier], issue no. 1. A renewed edition of the first issue of the newspaper, which was distributed as a gift to the readers on the day the last issue was published. Brussels, June 21, 1946 (the original issue was printed in Italy on March 5, 1944; the new details of printing appear on an orange strip of paper).
103 issues in two volumes (the number of pages varies between the issues) and [1] souvenir issue, renewed edition. approx. 34 cm. Good condition. Stains, creases and minor blemishes (mainly to margins). Open tears to corners of some leaves. Several detached and partly detached leaves. One of the volumes lacks spine and back board.
The issues contain an important documentation of the soldiers' life in Europe, their encounters with She'erit Hapletah and the changes that occurred in Palestine and the world after the war (reports from commissions of the UN, news on the subject of settlement and Aliyah, testimonies and updates on the state of the DP camps, soldiers' letters, poems and literary passages, and more). Many of the issues contain pictures from Palestine and the rest of the world, illustrations, caricatures and maps.
Bound in two volumes, with printed labels featuring the newspaper's logo (the numbers of the issues are typewritten on the labels).
Enclosed: "LaChayal" [for the soldier], issue no. 1. A renewed edition of the first issue of the newspaper, which was distributed as a gift to the readers on the day the last issue was published. Brussels, June 21, 1946 (the original issue was printed in Italy on March 5, 1944; the new details of printing appear on an orange strip of paper).
103 issues in two volumes (the number of pages varies between the issues) and [1] souvenir issue, renewed edition. approx. 34 cm. Good condition. Stains, creases and minor blemishes (mainly to margins). Open tears to corners of some leaves. Several detached and partly detached leaves. One of the volumes lacks spine and back board.
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Antisemitism, the Holocaust and Sh'erit ha-Pletah
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![Krieges Tagebuch eines jungen Emigranten [War Diary of a Young Emigrant], by Heinz Wisla. Typewritten. Jerusalem, 1944. Germa](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale80a-public/204.jpg "\"War Diary\", Memoir by the Jewish Refugee Heinz Wisla – Jerusalem, 194")
Auction 80 - Part I - Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
June 29, 2021
Opening: $500
Sold for: $625
Including buyer's premium
Krieges Tagebuch eines jungen Emigranten [War Diary of a Young Emigrant], by Heinz Wisla. Typewritten. Jerusalem, 1944. German.
Memoir by Heinz Wisla (1920-2004), a Berlin-born Jew, recounting the story of his escape from Nazi Germany and his arduous journey to Palestine. Typewritten, with a handwritten title page, signed by Wisla (noted on title page: "Berlin 1940"). Corrections in pen and pencil on many leaves. Enclosed with the book are three pictures of the author, two taped to title page and on back endpaper. Handwritten beneath the picture on the endpaper: "Jerusalem – 1944".
A Hebrew adaptation of the book, "Ba-derekh le-Erets-Yisra'el", was published in 1945 by "Am Oved", under the pseudonym Ben-Zvi Kalischer (translated from a German manuscript by Shalom Kremer).
According to the memoir, Wisla escaped Nazi Germany in the beginning of the war, after a period of imprisonment in the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp. His long journey to Palestine, passing through many countries – Slovakia, Turkey, Greece, Italy, Portugal and elsewhere, was laden with adventures. Among other things, Wisla describes swimming to escape the gunshots of Romanian border guards, drifting to a lonely island in the Aegean Sea, and meeting with Pope Pius XII in the Vatican. In February 1944, Wisla reached Palestine on board the illegal immigrant ship Nyassa.
The description of the meeting between Wisla and the Pope is one of the most astounding passages in the diary. Wisla writes that upon reaching Rome from the Italian detention camp in Rhodes, he was able to arrange an audience with the Pope, alongside several German-Catholic paratroopers, who were on their way to the North-African front. During this audience, Wisla requested the Pope's aid in improving the situation of Jewish refugees. The Pope promised to do whatever he could and even announced to Wisla, the German soldiers still within earshot: "My friend, you are a Jew and must be proud […] always be proud of being a Jew!". This story was published in April 1944 in the Jerusalem Post (anonymously). Some used this story to disprove the claims that Pope Pius XII adopted a policy of non-involvement during the destruction of European Jewry.
The credibility of this memoir is questionable (though presumably Wisla indeed escape from Germany, some of the details in his memoir are imprecise or unverifiable).
[135] leaves, 27.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Wear and small tears to margins (not affecting text). Fold lines and creases. One leaf cut in its lower part (one third of leaf is missing). Worn, loose card binding.
Memoir by Heinz Wisla (1920-2004), a Berlin-born Jew, recounting the story of his escape from Nazi Germany and his arduous journey to Palestine. Typewritten, with a handwritten title page, signed by Wisla (noted on title page: "Berlin 1940"). Corrections in pen and pencil on many leaves. Enclosed with the book are three pictures of the author, two taped to title page and on back endpaper. Handwritten beneath the picture on the endpaper: "Jerusalem – 1944".
A Hebrew adaptation of the book, "Ba-derekh le-Erets-Yisra'el", was published in 1945 by "Am Oved", under the pseudonym Ben-Zvi Kalischer (translated from a German manuscript by Shalom Kremer).
According to the memoir, Wisla escaped Nazi Germany in the beginning of the war, after a period of imprisonment in the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp. His long journey to Palestine, passing through many countries – Slovakia, Turkey, Greece, Italy, Portugal and elsewhere, was laden with adventures. Among other things, Wisla describes swimming to escape the gunshots of Romanian border guards, drifting to a lonely island in the Aegean Sea, and meeting with Pope Pius XII in the Vatican. In February 1944, Wisla reached Palestine on board the illegal immigrant ship Nyassa.
The description of the meeting between Wisla and the Pope is one of the most astounding passages in the diary. Wisla writes that upon reaching Rome from the Italian detention camp in Rhodes, he was able to arrange an audience with the Pope, alongside several German-Catholic paratroopers, who were on their way to the North-African front. During this audience, Wisla requested the Pope's aid in improving the situation of Jewish refugees. The Pope promised to do whatever he could and even announced to Wisla, the German soldiers still within earshot: "My friend, you are a Jew and must be proud […] always be proud of being a Jew!". This story was published in April 1944 in the Jerusalem Post (anonymously). Some used this story to disprove the claims that Pope Pius XII adopted a policy of non-involvement during the destruction of European Jewry.
The credibility of this memoir is questionable (though presumably Wisla indeed escape from Germany, some of the details in his memoir are imprecise or unverifiable).
[135] leaves, 27.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Wear and small tears to margins (not affecting text). Fold lines and creases. One leaf cut in its lower part (one third of leaf is missing). Worn, loose card binding.
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Antisemitism, the Holocaust and Sh'erit ha-Pletah
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