Auction 50 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture

Collection of Circular Letters – Central Bureau for the Settlement of German Jews / "Aliyat HaNo'ar" and Tehran Children

Opening: $500
Sold for: $625
Including buyer's premium
1-47. 47 printed letters, addressed to "all places that absorbed youth and children - refugees from Poland who immigrated to the country through Tehran", 1937-1942.
The circular letters were sent by the Jewish Agency office for Aliya of children and youth, signed (in print) by Henrietta Szold or by Hans Beyth, and deal with various issues related to the absorption of children and youth: medical treatment, sending parcels, change of names, observing Kashrut, and more. All of the letters are in Hebrew except for one which is in German.
48-49. Two letters hand-signed by Henrietta Szold, addressed to Kibbutzim and Kevutzot that absorbed youth from Germany, 1936-1937.
Size varies. Overall good condition. Filing holes and folding marks.
Anti-Semitism, The Holocaust and She'erit Ha-Pletah in Europe and Cyprus
Anti-Semitism, The Holocaust and She'erit Ha-Pletah in Europe and Cyprus