Auction 7 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture

Request for Funding and Financial Aid - Budapest, 1939-1942

Opening: $180
Unsold
1. Letter from 1939, asking for monetary aid from the community. Due to laws enacted against the Jews, the writer of the letter was in severe financial distress, and he was asking for help in order to make aliya.
2-3. Letters from 1942, asking for financial aid. A woman who had been working for 15 years in the Jewish community of Budapest requests for aid for the wedding of her daughter, the date of which had already been set. The request is identical in both letters.
34 cm. Good condition. Folding marks and slight tears.
Holocaust and She'erit Ha-Pleita
Holocaust and She'erit Ha-Pleita