Auction 50 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture

Collection of Paper Items – She'erit Ha-Pletah in Italy

Opening: $600
Sold for: $750
Including buyer's premium
1. Invitation from the commander of camp police in Rivoli to a "Great dancing party" in the area of the school kitchen. December 1947.
2. Invitation to Hanukkah ball, Jewish school in Rivoli, Italy, December 1947.
3-4. Receipt for a donation of money to the JNF, from the "Children of Refugees at BaDerech School, Terni [Camp]", Italy, "in the name of of the six million Jews who fell in the Golah and the heroes who fell in the war for our homeland". Rome, 1949 + additional receipt of the sixth-grade pupils at BaDerech School, in the name of "The instructor Eliyahu, who fell at Hanita".
5. Typewritten note regarding the search for a person in the camp in the Torino area.
6. Invitation to a Purim celebration "organized by the Jewish soldiers" at the "Reali" Cinema, Rome, 1945.
7. A booklet "For the children in the Golah, a Hanukkah gift" [Italy, late 1944], with illustartions and photographs. Hebrew and Italian. The introduction says, among other things: "You have just undergone terrible suffering. You have been saved, but many others are still under the yoke of the enemy. We shall share their suffering and hope their salvation will arrive shortly… please accept this Hanukkah gift from Jewish soldiers from Palestine and America". 31, [1] p, 15.5 cm.
8. Paper envelope on which the following inscription is printed in gold ink: "Gift for the children of Rome from the Jewish soldiers, Purim, 1945" (Hebrew and Italian), with an illustration of the Book of Esther.
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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