Auction 50 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture

Notice concerning Jewelry Confiscation –Lodz Ghetto, 1944

Opening: $500
Sold for: $625
Including buyer's premium
"Bekanntmachung Nr. 413" [notice no. 413]. An official notice issued by Mordechai Rumkowski, chairman of the Judenrat in the Lodz Ghetto (Litzmannstadt), regarding the collection of jewelry from the ghetto residents. February 25, 1944. Yiddish.
A notice regarding the postponement of the last date for handing over gold and silver jewelry to 12 March 1944. After this date the jewelry will be confiscated without compensation.
Signed in print by Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, the "Chief Elder of the Jews in Litzmannstadt".
Leaf, 24.5 cm. Good condition. Folding marks, creases and stains. Small tear to margin.
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