Online Auction 016 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture

Collection of Paper Items – Lodz Ghetto

Opening: $250
Sold for: $550
Including buyer's premium
Seven paper items, printed and written by hand, issued by the Lodz Ghetto Judenrat. Lodz, ca. 1940-1943. German, some Polish and Yiddish.
1-3. Three food vouchers, printed and filled-in by hand on official Judenrat forms. Different from each other: one for food portions, another for a portion of bread, and the third for a portion of milk.
4-5. Two certificates for staying in a sanatorium in the Ghetto: a certificate from 1940 (printed on a small card); a certificate from 1943. Not filled-in.
6. Handwritten certificate to a woman named Pola Rozenthal, indicating that she worked in one of the Judenrat departments on 18.5.1942. Stamped with the Judenrat ink-stamp.
7. Handwritten note (food voucher?) given to a Jew named Baruch Beller. Signed on the bottom margins with an ink-stamp: "Milkh karte, der eltester fun idn in litzmanstat" [milk card, Lodz Ghetto Judenrat].
Enclosed: work card (Provisorische Arbeiterkarte), printed and not filled-in (no location or year).
Size and condition vary. Good-fair overall condition. Stains, creases and defects. Pinholes and tears at margins of some of the items (mostly slight). One item with tears at margins, restored.
Anti-Semitism, the Holocaust and She'erit Ha-Pleita
Anti-Semitism, the Holocaust and She'erit Ha-Pleita