Auction 30 - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
Archive of Letters and Documents – Holocaust Refugees in the Far East (Kobe and Shanghai)
Opening: $1,400
Sold for: $4,500
Including buyer's premium
Collection of unknown letters and documents, by Holocaust refugees and "yeshiva" students in the Far East. 1941-1946.
One of the wonders of the survival of the Jewish people and Torah students was in the flight of thousands of Jews from independent Lithuania to Japan in 1940 by the trans-Siberian train to the Vladivostok port. From there, they departed by ship through Japanese waters to Kobe, Japan's capital. Only some of the refugees succeeded in proceeding to the USA and Eretz- Yisrael, the rest remained in Japan. The Japanese government, which initially just authorized visas to pass via Japan to other countries did not approve the arrival of the thousands of refugees and exiled the rest of the refugees to the cities of Shanghai and Charbin in China [at that time under Japanese jurisdiction], where they stayed until 1946, after the end of World War II.
In this collection are letters from Kobe, most concerning the acquisition of visas to the USA and certificates to Eretz -Yisrael and various other letters and documents from Kobe and Shanghai.
*Letters from the "Ashkenasi Jewish Community in Shanghai", from the "Ohel Moshe" Synagogue in Shanghai and from the "Jewish Community in Charbin". *Letters by Rabbi Shmuel Schadrovitsky, from Singapore, Kobe and Shanghai and letters to him. [Rabbi Shmuel Schadrovitsky, the Rabbi of Bialystok, was sent on a rescue mission to the Far East on behalf of "Agudat Yisrael" and the organization of rabbis who emigrated from Poland, to care for the refugees in the Far East as a representative of the Jewish agency and the exiled Polish government]. *Handwritten protocols of meetings of the committee of assistance for rescue which were conducted in Kobe, attended by Rabbi Shmuel Schadrovitsky. * Certificate with photograph, of Rabbi Simcha Elberg; a letter from him and telegrams with good wishes on his marriage, from his friends in the "Mir Yeshiva" in Shanghai. *List of the students of the"Lubavitch Yeshiva Tomchei Temimim" who reached Kobe, and a letter by Rabbi Shemarya Gur Aryeh [son-in-law of Rebbe Yosef Yitzchak Schneerson] on this matter. *List of the students of the "Radin Yeshiva", on stationary of the "Chafetz Chaim Yeshiva" in the USA. *Various letters from Kobe and Shanghai and letters sent there. *More.
Approximately 30 items, various sizes and conditions.
One of the wonders of the survival of the Jewish people and Torah students was in the flight of thousands of Jews from independent Lithuania to Japan in 1940 by the trans-Siberian train to the Vladivostok port. From there, they departed by ship through Japanese waters to Kobe, Japan's capital. Only some of the refugees succeeded in proceeding to the USA and Eretz- Yisrael, the rest remained in Japan. The Japanese government, which initially just authorized visas to pass via Japan to other countries did not approve the arrival of the thousands of refugees and exiled the rest of the refugees to the cities of Shanghai and Charbin in China [at that time under Japanese jurisdiction], where they stayed until 1946, after the end of World War II.
In this collection are letters from Kobe, most concerning the acquisition of visas to the USA and certificates to Eretz -Yisrael and various other letters and documents from Kobe and Shanghai.
*Letters from the "Ashkenasi Jewish Community in Shanghai", from the "Ohel Moshe" Synagogue in Shanghai and from the "Jewish Community in Charbin". *Letters by Rabbi Shmuel Schadrovitsky, from Singapore, Kobe and Shanghai and letters to him. [Rabbi Shmuel Schadrovitsky, the Rabbi of Bialystok, was sent on a rescue mission to the Far East on behalf of "Agudat Yisrael" and the organization of rabbis who emigrated from Poland, to care for the refugees in the Far East as a representative of the Jewish agency and the exiled Polish government]. *Handwritten protocols of meetings of the committee of assistance for rescue which were conducted in Kobe, attended by Rabbi Shmuel Schadrovitsky. * Certificate with photograph, of Rabbi Simcha Elberg; a letter from him and telegrams with good wishes on his marriage, from his friends in the "Mir Yeshiva" in Shanghai. *List of the students of the"Lubavitch Yeshiva Tomchei Temimim" who reached Kobe, and a letter by Rabbi Shemarya Gur Aryeh [son-in-law of Rebbe Yosef Yitzchak Schneerson] on this matter. *List of the students of the "Radin Yeshiva", on stationary of the "Chafetz Chaim Yeshiva" in the USA. *Various letters from Kobe and Shanghai and letters sent there. *More.
Approximately 30 items, various sizes and conditions.
The Holocaust, She'erit HaPleita in Europe and in the Far East
The Holocaust, She'erit HaPleita in Europe and in the Far East