Ten volumes of the Babylonian Talmud, printed in Munich-Heidelberg, 1949 by the She'erit hapleita rabbis in the DP camps, "Published by the Vaad Agudat HaRabbanim in the American region of Germany". Each volume has two title pages. The first title page (in yellow) has illustrations and inscriptions of the extermination camps and destruction of European Jewry.
Tractates: Shabbat, Eruvin-Rosh HaShana, Pesachim-Ta'anit, Beitzah-Chaggiga, Gittin-Sotah, Bava Batra, Avoda Zara, Zevachim-Menachot, Bechorot-Me'ilah.
Ownership inscriptions by the Erlau Rebbe "Yochanan ben Maharam Sofer Av Beit Din of Erlau". The leaf margins have many glosses in his handwriting. He notes in his glosses also what he wrote "on the sheets of the Talmud of the yeshiva'.
The Erlau Rebbe, Rebbe Yochanan Sofer (born in 1923), a descendent of the Chatam Sofer, grandson of Rabbi Shimon Sofer of Erlau (son of the Ktav Sofer). His grandfather and most of his family perished in the Holocaust and he survived, ascended to Eretz Israel, established Torah institutes and established the Erlau Chassidut which is one of the largest Chassidic communities in Jerusalem and Bnei Brak. One of the eldest rebbes of our generation, a leader of Mo'etzet Gedolei HaTorah.
10 volumes, approximately 39 cm. Fair condition, use wear, original damaged bindings.