Lot 69
Collection of Letters and Documents belonging to a Theresienstadt Survivor, 1945-49
Some 150 letters, postcards, and items of ephemera documenting the life of Yocheved (Jadzia) Rabinowitz, a Theresienstadt concentration camp survivor who resided in Munich following the war. Europe and Palestine, 1945-49. German, Polish; some Yiddish, Hebrew, and additional languages.
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Some 120 letters, postcards, and telegrams (most handwritten) sent to Yocheved (Jadzia) Rabinowitz from acquaintances and family members (some of them also evidently Holocaust survivors) – Munich, Paris, London, Lodz, Tel Aviv, and elsewhere. Among the letters are four "shanah tovah" cards for Hebrew New Year 5709 (1948), one issued by the Jewish National Fund in Munich, and one bearing a portrait of Theodor Herzl in giolden ink.
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Some 30 documents and items of ephemera: Two documents from the Theresienstadt camp administration certifying that Rabinowitz is leaving the camp and is not suffering from any illnesses (June 1945); five "International Reply Coupons" (attached to letters in order to cover the costs of Rabinowitz's letters of reply, 1945); three invitations to weddings of Jewish couples (1948); handwritten note from a representative of the consulate of Israel in Munich – request to allow Rabinowitz to board a plane and immigrate to Israel on account of the heart disease suffered by an uncle living in Israel (1949); and additional documents.
Size and condition vary.
