Auction 50 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture

Ten “Shana Tova” Greeting Cards – She'erit Ha-Pletah

Opening: $1,200
Sold for: $2,125
Including buyer's premium
Ten “Shana Tova” greeting cards sent or printed in Europe after the Holocaust:
* Printed card for the 5708 New Year, Bad Reichenhall, Camp 1069 (1947). * Printed card for the 5708 Jewish New Year, published by the JNF's head central office in Germany (1947). * Printed card for the 5708 Jewish New Year, with illustration by [Zvi] Miklos Adler. * Printed card for the 5709 Jewish New Year, sent from Weilheim Camp to Haifa (1948). * Printed card, sent to Argentina through Sweden (1946). * Photographic card, with Shana Tova greeting handwritten on reverse, from "Agudat VePoalei Agudat Israel in Bari, Italy" (1946). * Printed card for the 5710 Jewish New Near, from the family of Rabbi Bernstein and Ari' Beker, Munich (1948). * Photographic Shana Tova card (photograph of a couple and child) for the 5708 Jewish New Year, sent from Berlin (1947). * Photographic Shana Tova card (photograph of a couple) for the 5710 Jewish New Year, sent from Landsberg (1949).
Size and condition vary. Good overall condition.
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