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Online Auction 021 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
January 14, 2020
Opening: $120
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D.P. Index card – an index card of a refugee, issued by the Allied Expeditionary Force. [Europe, presumably Poland, May 24, 1945 (according to pencil writing on its verso)].
Index card of Alexander Wikiel. According to the database of the Warsaw Rising Museum in Warsaw, Poland, the owner of the card participated in the Warsaw Rising organized by the Polish resistance movement against the Nazi occupation in 1944.
5X7.5 cm. fair condition. Wear, creases and stains.
Index card of Alexander Wikiel. According to the database of the Warsaw Rising Museum in Warsaw, Poland, the owner of the card participated in the Warsaw Rising organized by the Polish resistance movement against the Nazi occupation in 1944.
5X7.5 cm. fair condition. Wear, creases and stains.
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Online Auction 021 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
January 14, 2020
Opening: $200
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"Memorial for those martyred in Poland during the months Tamuz to Kislev 1942-1943" (Hebrew), a leaflet. Publisher and year not indicated. [Palestine, 1943?].
A version of the "El Maleh Rachamim" (God Full of Mercy) prayer in memory of Holocaust victims – "The thousands upon thousands souls of Israel … that were killed … in the countries occupied by the Nazis … Poland, Austria, Bulgaria, Belgoium, Bukovina, Servia, Galicia, Germany, Denmark, Holland, Yugoslavia, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Czechoslovakia, France, Occupied Russia, and the other countries occupied by the enemy" (Hebrew). The prayer was presumably written during Operation Reinhard, subsequent to hundreds of thousands of Jews being sent from the Warsaw Ghetto to the extermination camps ("The Grossaktion").
The printed text was vowelized hand (in pen).
Approx. 13X16 cm. Good condition. Fold lines. Creases and minor blemishes. A small tear to edge.
A version of the "El Maleh Rachamim" (God Full of Mercy) prayer in memory of Holocaust victims – "The thousands upon thousands souls of Israel … that were killed … in the countries occupied by the Nazis … Poland, Austria, Bulgaria, Belgoium, Bukovina, Servia, Galicia, Germany, Denmark, Holland, Yugoslavia, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Czechoslovakia, France, Occupied Russia, and the other countries occupied by the enemy" (Hebrew). The prayer was presumably written during Operation Reinhard, subsequent to hundreds of thousands of Jews being sent from the Warsaw Ghetto to the extermination camps ("The Grossaktion").
The printed text was vowelized hand (in pen).
Approx. 13X16 cm. Good condition. Fold lines. Creases and minor blemishes. A small tear to edge.
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Online Auction 021 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
January 14, 2020
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Yizkor-Tzetl, Fareyn "Chessed shel Emet", Radevitz [Memorial-leaf, "Chessed shel Emet" Society, Radautz], two lists of deceased. [Radautz, Romania, 1940s]. Yiddish.
Two "Yizkor" leaves (memorial leaves), one for men and one for women, with lists of deceased Jews (who, presumably, perished during the Holocaust).
Enclosed: three printed leaves with additional lists of names of deceased Jews (proof prints for memorial leaves?). On verso of one of the leaves is a handwritten copy of a Romanian letter from 1919.
A total of five leaves, size and condition vary. Stains and tears.
Two "Yizkor" leaves (memorial leaves), one for men and one for women, with lists of deceased Jews (who, presumably, perished during the Holocaust).
Enclosed: three printed leaves with additional lists of names of deceased Jews (proof prints for memorial leaves?). On verso of one of the leaves is a handwritten copy of a Romanian letter from 1919.
A total of five leaves, size and condition vary. Stains and tears.
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Antisemitism, Holocaust and She'erit HaPletah
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Online Auction 021 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
January 14, 2020
Opening: $200
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Two Nazi maps of Lodz (Litzmannstadt) from World War II and a map of the "Nazi crimes in Poland" from 1968. Germany and Poland, 1942-1968. German and other languages.
1. Plan von Litzmannstadt mit Strassenverzeichnis [Map of Litzmannstadt with Street index], by Erwin Thiem. Lodz: S. Spiegelt, 1942. German. Scale: 1: 20000.
A large map of Lodz. On verso is a comprehensive, alphabetically ordered, list of all street names throughout the city. The area of the Jewish Ghetto has been erased of street-names and replaced by a series of letters or numbers (small portion in white, in central upper area of map).
Approx. 70X94 cm. Good condition. Fold lines and creases. Minor stains. Small tears (mainly along the fold lines).
2. Deutsche Heereskarte – Litzmannstadt [Map of the German Army – Litzmannstadt]. [Berlin]: OKH / GenStdH (Chef des Kriegskarten- und Vermessungswesens) [The General Staff of the Ground Forces of the German Army, Mapping and Measurement Department], 1944. German. Scale: 1: 300000.
A third edition of the map of Lodz and its surroundings (published for the first time in 1941). Printed, presumably, for the general staff of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe). On top of the map it is indicated that it was intended for military use only.
56X50 cm. Good condition. Stains and minor blemishes to margins.
3. Nazi Crimes in Poland in the Years 1939-1945, a map edited by Jan Laskowski. Warsaw: Polskie Przedsiębiorstwo Wydawnictw Kartograficznych, 1968. Scale: 1: 1500000. Polish, Russian, French, English and German.
A map depicting the Nazi crimes in Poland. It shows the precise location of each camp, number of prisoners, extermination camps, concentration and labor camps, mass tombs of Polish and Russian prisoners of war, numbers of executed, and more. It was edited for the Council for Protection of Fight and Martyrdom Monuments and is based on documents of the Central Commission for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes in Poland.
47X58 cm. Good condition. Fold lines and creases. Stains, tears and minor blemishes (mainly to margins and along the fold lines).
1. Plan von Litzmannstadt mit Strassenverzeichnis [Map of Litzmannstadt with Street index], by Erwin Thiem. Lodz: S. Spiegelt, 1942. German. Scale: 1: 20000.
A large map of Lodz. On verso is a comprehensive, alphabetically ordered, list of all street names throughout the city. The area of the Jewish Ghetto has been erased of street-names and replaced by a series of letters or numbers (small portion in white, in central upper area of map).
Approx. 70X94 cm. Good condition. Fold lines and creases. Minor stains. Small tears (mainly along the fold lines).
2. Deutsche Heereskarte – Litzmannstadt [Map of the German Army – Litzmannstadt]. [Berlin]: OKH / GenStdH (Chef des Kriegskarten- und Vermessungswesens) [The General Staff of the Ground Forces of the German Army, Mapping and Measurement Department], 1944. German. Scale: 1: 300000.
A third edition of the map of Lodz and its surroundings (published for the first time in 1941). Printed, presumably, for the general staff of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe). On top of the map it is indicated that it was intended for military use only.
56X50 cm. Good condition. Stains and minor blemishes to margins.
3. Nazi Crimes in Poland in the Years 1939-1945, a map edited by Jan Laskowski. Warsaw: Polskie Przedsiębiorstwo Wydawnictw Kartograficznych, 1968. Scale: 1: 1500000. Polish, Russian, French, English and German.
A map depicting the Nazi crimes in Poland. It shows the precise location of each camp, number of prisoners, extermination camps, concentration and labor camps, mass tombs of Polish and Russian prisoners of war, numbers of executed, and more. It was edited for the Council for Protection of Fight and Martyrdom Monuments and is based on documents of the Central Commission for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes in Poland.
47X58 cm. Good condition. Fold lines and creases. Stains, tears and minor blemishes (mainly to margins and along the fold lines).
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Antisemitism, Holocaust and She'erit HaPletah
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Online Auction 021 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
January 14, 2020
Opening: $100
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"To the Jewish Yishuv in Palestine!" / "An den Jischuw in Erez Israel", a broadside issued by "Hamif'al LePidyon Shevuyei Austria" [a drive for the rescue of Austrian Jewry] headed by Chaim Weizmann. Tel-Aviv: "Hotza'at Erezt Yisrael" press, [ca. 1938]. Printed on both sides, one side in Hebrew and the other in German.
A broadside with an announcement of the establishment of "Hamif'al LePidyon Shevuyei Austria" headed by Chaim Weizmann, the Chief Rabbis of Palestine and the rabbi of Tel-Aviv.
The "Hamif'al LePidyon Shevuyei Austria" drive was established following the annexation of Austria into the Third Reich (March 1938) and the Kristallnacht (November 1938), with the goal raising funds for the Jews of Austria who had fallen victim to persecution and forced immigration; to help them receive visas to Palestine and assist them when they arrived in Palestine.
22X29 cm. Good condition. Creases. Filing holes. A few stains. Tears along the edges.
A broadside with an announcement of the establishment of "Hamif'al LePidyon Shevuyei Austria" headed by Chaim Weizmann, the Chief Rabbis of Palestine and the rabbi of Tel-Aviv.
The "Hamif'al LePidyon Shevuyei Austria" drive was established following the annexation of Austria into the Third Reich (March 1938) and the Kristallnacht (November 1938), with the goal raising funds for the Jews of Austria who had fallen victim to persecution and forced immigration; to help them receive visas to Palestine and assist them when they arrived in Palestine.
22X29 cm. Good condition. Creases. Filing holes. A few stains. Tears along the edges.
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Online Auction 021 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
January 14, 2020
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Eight broadsides and paper items related to the assistance of the Yishuv in Palestine to the Jews of Europe during the Holocaust. Palestine, early 1940s.
* "Petition of the children of Palestine…" (Hebrew), signed by three children from the "Tachkemoni" school of Jerusalem. June 1943. * Blank form, "Petition of the Yishuv…" (Hebrew) + a small band to wear on one's clothes – "Statutory holiday – Petition of the Yishuv" (Hebrew). June 1943. * Broadside "To our brothers and sisters in Tel-Aviv!" (Hebrew), about the atrocities and the mass murder of the Jews of Europe. * Broadside - "The People of Israel in Their Homeland" (Hebrew) issued by the New Zionist Organization in Palestine, about the destruction of European Jewry. * Broadside "To the Jewish Yishuv in Palestine!" (Hebrew) issued by the United Committee for Aiding the Jews of Poland, about the fundraising campaign of 1941-1942 for the refugees of Poland. * Printed sign: "Jew beware! German products are sold here" (Hebrew). * Printed leaflet about "The clothing enterprise of the United Committee for Aiding the Jews of Poland" (Hebrew).
Size and condition vary. Good overall condition.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
* "Petition of the children of Palestine…" (Hebrew), signed by three children from the "Tachkemoni" school of Jerusalem. June 1943. * Blank form, "Petition of the Yishuv…" (Hebrew) + a small band to wear on one's clothes – "Statutory holiday – Petition of the Yishuv" (Hebrew). June 1943. * Broadside "To our brothers and sisters in Tel-Aviv!" (Hebrew), about the atrocities and the mass murder of the Jews of Europe. * Broadside - "The People of Israel in Their Homeland" (Hebrew) issued by the New Zionist Organization in Palestine, about the destruction of European Jewry. * Broadside "To the Jewish Yishuv in Palestine!" (Hebrew) issued by the United Committee for Aiding the Jews of Poland, about the fundraising campaign of 1941-1942 for the refugees of Poland. * Printed sign: "Jew beware! German products are sold here" (Hebrew). * Printed leaflet about "The clothing enterprise of the United Committee for Aiding the Jews of Poland" (Hebrew).
Size and condition vary. Good overall condition.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
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Antisemitism, Holocaust and She'erit HaPletah
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Online Auction 021 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
January 14, 2020
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"Vezot Lakarov VeLarachok", a newsletter published by the Search Bureau for Missing Relatives of the Jewish Agency (in conjunction with Va'ad haHatzalah). Issue 6. Tel-Aviv, August 1945.
Issue 6 of the newsletter "Vezot Lakarov VeLarachok" published by the Search Bureau for Missing Relatives of the Jewish Agency. The newsletter was published during the years 1945-1947 and contained many articles about She'erit Hapletah around the world, lists of names of survivors according to towns, camps and more, and lists of illegal immigrants to Palestine. In order to override the license requirement imposed by the British Mandate authorities on regularly publishing a newspaper, the first twenty issues of the newsletter were published under different titles, each presented as a "One-time issue".
8 pp, 47.5 cm. Fair-good condition. Detached leaves. Fold lines. Stains. Creases, tears and several open tears, mostly along the edges and fold lines. Penned notations on the margins of the last page.
Issue 6 of the newsletter "Vezot Lakarov VeLarachok" published by the Search Bureau for Missing Relatives of the Jewish Agency. The newsletter was published during the years 1945-1947 and contained many articles about She'erit Hapletah around the world, lists of names of survivors according to towns, camps and more, and lists of illegal immigrants to Palestine. In order to override the license requirement imposed by the British Mandate authorities on regularly publishing a newspaper, the first twenty issues of the newsletter were published under different titles, each presented as a "One-time issue".
8 pp, 47.5 cm. Fair-good condition. Detached leaves. Fold lines. Stains. Creases, tears and several open tears, mostly along the edges and fold lines. Penned notations on the margins of the last page.
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Antisemitism, Holocaust and She'erit HaPletah
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Online Auction 021 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
January 14, 2020
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Bulletin, the Rescue Committee of the Jewish Agency for Palestine. [Jerusalem], February 1946. Mimeographed typescript.
The issue contains articles about the fate of the Jews during the Holocaust and information about the state of She'erit Hapletah in Europe after the Holocaust: "A Letter from Vilnius", "From a Letter about the State of the Jews of Poland", "The State of the Jews in Vienna after the War", "The State of the Jewish Refugees Coming to Austria", "A Story by a Member of the Jewish Underground Organization in France, who was in the Glinice camp" and more.
[1] leaf, 13 pp, 26.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Foxing (many stains on some of the leaves). Fold lines. Creases to margins. Several pinholes to the first two leaves. The first leaf is detached.
The issue contains articles about the fate of the Jews during the Holocaust and information about the state of She'erit Hapletah in Europe after the Holocaust: "A Letter from Vilnius", "From a Letter about the State of the Jews of Poland", "The State of the Jews in Vienna after the War", "The State of the Jewish Refugees Coming to Austria", "A Story by a Member of the Jewish Underground Organization in France, who was in the Glinice camp" and more.
[1] leaf, 13 pp, 26.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Foxing (many stains on some of the leaves). Fold lines. Creases to margins. Several pinholes to the first two leaves. The first leaf is detached.
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Online Auction 021 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
January 14, 2020
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Four paper receipts issued by the Organization of Central European Immigrants and the Institute for Foreign Trade Ltd., dealing with the delivery of packages sent by a resident of Haifa to her relative in the American Occupation Zone in Munich after World War II. Haifa, 1946-1947.
The receipts document deliveries of a raincoat, shoes, food and two hundred cigarettes.
Size varies. Fair-good condition. Stains. Filing holes.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
The receipts document deliveries of a raincoat, shoes, food and two hundred cigarettes.
Size varies. Fair-good condition. Stains. Filing holes.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Category
Antisemitism, Holocaust and She'erit HaPletah
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Online Auction 021 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
January 14, 2020
Opening: $150
Sold for: $188
Including buyer's premium
Five paper items related to the search for relatives during World War II and after it:
* An airograph sent from a branch of the Jewish Agency in London to the representative of the Agency in Jerusalem, containing information about Holocaust survivors in Europe whose relatives were searching for, July 1944. * Letter by the Chief Rabbi's Religious Emergency Council, with a request to track down a Holocaust survivor's sister, who is alone in Belsen, August 1945. * A telegram on a form of the Hungarian Red Cross, which was sent from Újpest, Budapest, to Kibbutz Tel-Yosef, by a father who had not heard from his son for nine months, December 1941. * A typewritten note, which was sent from Palestine to an envoy in Italy, about the search for a man in a camp in the area of Torino (undated). * A printed leaflet, "Telegrams, letters and regards from the survivors among the Jews of Poland who were accepted by the United Committee for Aiding the Jews of Poland, Jerusalem" (Hebrew), Jerusalem, the year of printing is not indicated [ca. 1945-1946].
Size and condition vary. The printed leaflet has tears reinforced with tape.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
* An airograph sent from a branch of the Jewish Agency in London to the representative of the Agency in Jerusalem, containing information about Holocaust survivors in Europe whose relatives were searching for, July 1944. * Letter by the Chief Rabbi's Religious Emergency Council, with a request to track down a Holocaust survivor's sister, who is alone in Belsen, August 1945. * A telegram on a form of the Hungarian Red Cross, which was sent from Újpest, Budapest, to Kibbutz Tel-Yosef, by a father who had not heard from his son for nine months, December 1941. * A typewritten note, which was sent from Palestine to an envoy in Italy, about the search for a man in a camp in the area of Torino (undated). * A printed leaflet, "Telegrams, letters and regards from the survivors among the Jews of Poland who were accepted by the United Committee for Aiding the Jews of Poland, Jerusalem" (Hebrew), Jerusalem, the year of printing is not indicated [ca. 1945-1946].
Size and condition vary. The printed leaflet has tears reinforced with tape.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Category
Antisemitism, Holocaust and She'erit HaPletah
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Online Auction 021 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
January 14, 2020
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Two letters sent by Holocaust survivors, displaced persons, to the Secretary-General of the United Nations Trygve Lie. Germany, April-May 1947. English.
Two mimeographed letters, of identical content, which were sent by Holocaust survivors in DP camps in the American Zone of Germany. At the beginning of the letter, which is addressed in advance to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, there is space for filling-in the personal details – the survivor's name and the camp he is staying in. In the letter, the survivors request that the UN examine the question of Palestine and enable them to immigrate to Palestine.
Enclosed are the original envelopes in which the letters were sent, addressed to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, and stamped with postmarks from Munich, May 1947, and from Kassel, April 1947.
[2] leaves, 28 cm. Good condition. Fold lines.
Two mimeographed letters, of identical content, which were sent by Holocaust survivors in DP camps in the American Zone of Germany. At the beginning of the letter, which is addressed in advance to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, there is space for filling-in the personal details – the survivor's name and the camp he is staying in. In the letter, the survivors request that the UN examine the question of Palestine and enable them to immigrate to Palestine.
Enclosed are the original envelopes in which the letters were sent, addressed to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, and stamped with postmarks from Munich, May 1947, and from Kassel, April 1947.
[2] leaves, 28 cm. Good condition. Fold lines.
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Online Auction 021 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
January 14, 2020
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Der Bericht des Jüdischen Rettungskomitees aus Budapest 1942-1945, Vorgelegt von Dr. Rezsö Kasztner [The report of the Jewish Rescue Committee in Budapest 1942-1945, Submitted by Dr. Rezsö Kasztner] [Switzerland or Budapest?]: Vaadat Ezra Vö-Hazalah Bö Budapest, [1946]. German.
Report (mimeographed typescript) on the activity of the Jewish Aid and Rescue Committee in Budapest during World War II, submitted by Rezsö (Israel) Kastner to the first Zionist congress after the Holocaust in Basel, 1946. Classified "Confidential" on the top of the cover.
The report was written by Kastner shortly after World War II and it contains an extensive description of the events of the Holocaust in Hungary, a review of the activity of the Jewish Aid and Rescue Committee and a documentation of the efforts to organize the departure of the "Rescue Train" from Hungary to Switzerland. Appearing at the end of the report are several copies of affidavits and letters of recommendation in favor of Kastner, describing his activity for the Jews of Hungary and the financial help he gave the Jews of the Theresienstadt Ghetto.
The report aided Kastner's acquittal after a court decision in 1955 stated that "Kastner sold his soul to the devil" and collaborated with the Nazis and after he was assassinated in Tel-Aviv in March 1957. The report was translated to Hebrew and published in the early 1980s by the "Society for the Commemoration of Israel Kastner".
[1], XIII, 191, [6] leaves, approx. 30 cm. Bound with a string. Good condition. Stains. A few creases and small tears to the margins. Tears and blemishes to cover.
Report (mimeographed typescript) on the activity of the Jewish Aid and Rescue Committee in Budapest during World War II, submitted by Rezsö (Israel) Kastner to the first Zionist congress after the Holocaust in Basel, 1946. Classified "Confidential" on the top of the cover.
The report was written by Kastner shortly after World War II and it contains an extensive description of the events of the Holocaust in Hungary, a review of the activity of the Jewish Aid and Rescue Committee and a documentation of the efforts to organize the departure of the "Rescue Train" from Hungary to Switzerland. Appearing at the end of the report are several copies of affidavits and letters of recommendation in favor of Kastner, describing his activity for the Jews of Hungary and the financial help he gave the Jews of the Theresienstadt Ghetto.
The report aided Kastner's acquittal after a court decision in 1955 stated that "Kastner sold his soul to the devil" and collaborated with the Nazis and after he was assassinated in Tel-Aviv in March 1957. The report was translated to Hebrew and published in the early 1980s by the "Society for the Commemoration of Israel Kastner".
[1], XIII, 191, [6] leaves, approx. 30 cm. Bound with a string. Good condition. Stains. A few creases and small tears to the margins. Tears and blemishes to cover.
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