Auction 72 - Rare and Important Items
Manuscript, Memorial Book of the Nitra Community, Post-Holocaust, With Prayer for Holocaust Victims and Records of Victims' Names – Illustrated Title Page
Opening: $1,000
Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000
Sold for: $1,375
Including buyer's premium
Manuscript, "Hazkarat Neshamot of the Chevra Kaddisha Gemilut Chassadim – Nitra". Nitra, 1947.
Color illustrated title page designed to resemble title pages of printed books (modeled after the title page of the Mantua Zohar, 1558-1560, and other books printed in Mantua at that time). A note at the bottom of the title page states that this register was prepared in 1947, after the community's old register was lost (apparently during the Holocaust): "This register was made with the efforts of the gabbaim of the Chevra Kaddisha Gemilut Chassadim, R. Alter Chaim Apt, R. Moshe Stark, R. Hillel Roth, R. Yaakov Hopf, R. Avraham Yitzchak Rosenthal, in 1947, because the old book was lost".
Following the title page are prayers of Hashkava and Mi Sheberach (with initials decorated in color), including an El Male Rachamim prayer dedicated to the Holocaust victims: "… the souls of the kedoshim who were put to death, those that were killed, those that were slaughtered and burnt and drowned and strangled sanctifying G-d's Name, in Dęblin, Majdanek, Auschwitz and the rest of the extermination camps in Europe, G-d should revenge their blood…".
The following pages contain over 600 records of men and women of the Nitra community, many of whom perished in the Holocaust. The first of these pages lists the names of the rabbis of the Nitra community through the generations: R. Yechezkel Bennet, R. Shlomo Deutsch, R. Yosef Hoenig, R. Eliezer Rozner, R. Moshe Katz and his son R. Avraham Aharon Katz, R. Shmuel David HaLevi Ungar and his son R. Ben Zion Yosef HaLevi (Rabbi of Piešťany), and others. Mentioned on the next page is R. Yehoshua Buksbaum Rabbi of Galanta. Some of the records document the murder of entire families, the names of parents with the names of their children (for instance, "the soul of R. Yehoshua son of R. Chaim Apt and his wife Esther, and the souls of their daughter Hendel, their daughter Leah, their daughter Rachel, their daughter Rivka and their son R. Aharon").
[19] leaves (33 written pages). 30 cm. Thick paper. Good condition. Stains. New leather binding.
Color illustrated title page designed to resemble title pages of printed books (modeled after the title page of the Mantua Zohar, 1558-1560, and other books printed in Mantua at that time). A note at the bottom of the title page states that this register was prepared in 1947, after the community's old register was lost (apparently during the Holocaust): "This register was made with the efforts of the gabbaim of the Chevra Kaddisha Gemilut Chassadim, R. Alter Chaim Apt, R. Moshe Stark, R. Hillel Roth, R. Yaakov Hopf, R. Avraham Yitzchak Rosenthal, in 1947, because the old book was lost".
Following the title page are prayers of Hashkava and Mi Sheberach (with initials decorated in color), including an El Male Rachamim prayer dedicated to the Holocaust victims: "… the souls of the kedoshim who were put to death, those that were killed, those that were slaughtered and burnt and drowned and strangled sanctifying G-d's Name, in Dęblin, Majdanek, Auschwitz and the rest of the extermination camps in Europe, G-d should revenge their blood…".
The following pages contain over 600 records of men and women of the Nitra community, many of whom perished in the Holocaust. The first of these pages lists the names of the rabbis of the Nitra community through the generations: R. Yechezkel Bennet, R. Shlomo Deutsch, R. Yosef Hoenig, R. Eliezer Rozner, R. Moshe Katz and his son R. Avraham Aharon Katz, R. Shmuel David HaLevi Ungar and his son R. Ben Zion Yosef HaLevi (Rabbi of Piešťany), and others. Mentioned on the next page is R. Yehoshua Buksbaum Rabbi of Galanta. Some of the records document the murder of entire families, the names of parents with the names of their children (for instance, "the soul of R. Yehoshua son of R. Chaim Apt and his wife Esther, and the souls of their daughter Hendel, their daughter Leah, their daughter Rachel, their daughter Rivka and their son R. Aharon").
[19] leaves (33 written pages). 30 cm. Thick paper. Good condition. Stains. New leather binding.
Holocaust and She'erit Hapletah
Holocaust and She'erit Hapletah