Auction 26 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture

Collection of Photographs – Jewish Refugees in Vienna, 1946-1948

Opening: $2,500
Unsold
43 photos of Jewish holocaust survivors in a transit-camp in the city of Vienna, [1946-1948].
Photos by the photographer Wolf Schärf (all are ink-stamped by the photographer). Documenting the daily life of Jewish refugees in a temporary transit-camp in the city of Vienna: queue for food distribution, children's school, Passover, etc. The photos were taken out of a photo-album where handwritten annotation prove beyond doubt that the photographed are Jewish refugees in a transit-camp (attached is a photocopy of one of the album's leaves). Some of the photos are annotated by hand on the reverse (later annotation, in pencil). 8.5X13.5 cm. Good condition.
Holocaust and She'erit Ha-Pleita
Holocaust and She'erit Ha-Pleita