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Auction 50 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 16, 2016
Opening: $700
Sold for: $1,000
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A long letter from Holocaust survivor Sara Rudney, to her deceased husband’s brother - asking him for a chalitzah (in Halakhic law, the release of a widow from the obligation to marry her husband’s brother) following her husband’s death. St. Ottilien, near Landsberg (Germany), May 1946. English.
In the letter the writer tells of the death of her family members in the ghettoes and concentration camps, including her husband (brother of the letter’s addressee), who perished in a camp near Landsberg in 1944, and their son, who died at the Kovno ghetto. She goes on to ask her brother-in-law for a chalitzah, writing: “It was very difficult and painful to write you about that, but from the Din-Torah I must do it and inform you about that and please ask there in Baltimore how I can get from you a chlice [chalitzah]…”. She also asks her brother-in-law whether he has the graduation certificate confirming she has a degree in philology (he was supposed to receive the certificate from her husband), and writes that if she wishes to go to Palestine or anywhere else, she will need the certificate in order to find work.
[3] leaves (5 written pp) - notebook paper, 21 cm. Good condition. Folding marks, tears and slight defects.
In the letter the writer tells of the death of her family members in the ghettoes and concentration camps, including her husband (brother of the letter’s addressee), who perished in a camp near Landsberg in 1944, and their son, who died at the Kovno ghetto. She goes on to ask her brother-in-law for a chalitzah, writing: “It was very difficult and painful to write you about that, but from the Din-Torah I must do it and inform you about that and please ask there in Baltimore how I can get from you a chlice [chalitzah]…”. She also asks her brother-in-law whether he has the graduation certificate confirming she has a degree in philology (he was supposed to receive the certificate from her husband), and writes that if she wishes to go to Palestine or anywhere else, she will need the certificate in order to find work.
[3] leaves (5 written pp) - notebook paper, 21 cm. Good condition. Folding marks, tears and slight defects.
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Auction 50 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 16, 2016
Opening: $300
Sold for: Unsold
Two letters from the secretary of "Vaad HaHatzala" in New-York, Rabbi Ya'akov Karlinsky. Printed on official stationery of "Vaad HaHatzala" (committee for the rescue of Jews) and signed in print. New-York, February-March 1945. English.
Both letters were written in reply to letters from a person who asked to find out about a relative, survivor of Theresienstadt Ghetto. In both letters the secretary of "Vaad HaHatzala" writes that he cannot supply the requested information.
On the reverse of one of the letters appears a handwritten draft, from Edward Horwitz with an additional application to "Vaad HaHatzala" asking to get information about his sister, Hermine Goldbaum.
[2] leaves, 27.5 cm. Good condition. Folding marks.
Both letters were written in reply to letters from a person who asked to find out about a relative, survivor of Theresienstadt Ghetto. In both letters the secretary of "Vaad HaHatzala" writes that he cannot supply the requested information.
On the reverse of one of the letters appears a handwritten draft, from Edward Horwitz with an additional application to "Vaad HaHatzala" asking to get information about his sister, Hermine Goldbaum.
[2] leaves, 27.5 cm. Good condition. Folding marks.
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Auction 50 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 16, 2016
Opening: $650
Sold for: Unsold
Parochet (Torah Ark curtain) and Kaporet (smaller upper curtain) with an embroidered dedication, commemorating those who perished at Treblinka and Auschwitz. Głuszyca, Poland, September 1946.
1. Parochet. Embroidered Hebrew dedication reads: "In commemoration of the souls of our dear parents, Shalom ben Rebbe Moshe Michael [and] Esther Sheindel daughter of Rebbe Elhanan, and our brother Michael ben Rebbe Shalom, murdered for kiddush hashem [for being Jewish] at Treblinka and Auschwitz, Chaim Edelman, Rachel Leah Weigensberg with her husband Shlomo. Głuszyca, 1 Tishrei 5707".
140X122 cm. Loops for hanging on upper part. Good overall condition. Creases and some stains. Tears to upper part, around the metal loops.
2. Kaporet. In the middle is an embroidered Star of David with the word “Zion” inside it, beneath it is an embroidered rising sun. Fringes. 33X120 cm. Loops for hanging on upper part. Good overall condition. Some fraying of embroidery. Tears to upper part, around the metal loops.
The town of Głuszyca is today in southwest Poland, near the Czech border. Until 1945 the area was occupied by Germany and called by the German name of Wüstegiersdorf. An independent concentration camp operated there beginning in May 1941, not far from the Gross-Rosen Camp. After the war, in the years 1946-1950, several hundred Jews - Holocaust survivors - lived in Głuszyca (for additional information, see enclosed material).
1. Parochet. Embroidered Hebrew dedication reads: "In commemoration of the souls of our dear parents, Shalom ben Rebbe Moshe Michael [and] Esther Sheindel daughter of Rebbe Elhanan, and our brother Michael ben Rebbe Shalom, murdered for kiddush hashem [for being Jewish] at Treblinka and Auschwitz, Chaim Edelman, Rachel Leah Weigensberg with her husband Shlomo. Głuszyca, 1 Tishrei 5707".
140X122 cm. Loops for hanging on upper part. Good overall condition. Creases and some stains. Tears to upper part, around the metal loops.
2. Kaporet. In the middle is an embroidered Star of David with the word “Zion” inside it, beneath it is an embroidered rising sun. Fringes. 33X120 cm. Loops for hanging on upper part. Good overall condition. Some fraying of embroidery. Tears to upper part, around the metal loops.
The town of Głuszyca is today in southwest Poland, near the Czech border. Until 1945 the area was occupied by Germany and called by the German name of Wüstegiersdorf. An independent concentration camp operated there beginning in May 1941, not far from the Gross-Rosen Camp. After the war, in the years 1946-1950, several hundred Jews - Holocaust survivors - lived in Głuszyca (for additional information, see enclosed material).
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Anti-Semitism, The Holocaust and She'erit Ha-Pletah in Europe and Cyprus
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Auction 50 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 16, 2016
Opening: $600
Sold for: Unsold
17 photographs. Europe, [second half of 1940s].
Among the photographs: five postcard-size photographs of the Jewish Committee school in Nowa Ruda, Poland; three small photographs from Fernwald refugee camp, among them are photographs of the yearly memorial ceremony for victims of Rovno; two photographs from Sosnowiec - Kibbutz of Agudat Israel girls and a Talmud Torah; photographs from Częstochowa; photographs from Saalfelden, Austria; photograph of a meeting in memory of the victims of Chelm; a postcard issued by Joint from a summer camp for children in Swider, Poland, and some additional items.
Size and condition vary.
Among the photographs: five postcard-size photographs of the Jewish Committee school in Nowa Ruda, Poland; three small photographs from Fernwald refugee camp, among them are photographs of the yearly memorial ceremony for victims of Rovno; two photographs from Sosnowiec - Kibbutz of Agudat Israel girls and a Talmud Torah; photographs from Częstochowa; photographs from Saalfelden, Austria; photograph of a meeting in memory of the victims of Chelm; a postcard issued by Joint from a summer camp for children in Swider, Poland, and some additional items.
Size and condition vary.
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Anti-Semitism, The Holocaust and She'erit Ha-Pletah in Europe and Cyprus
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Auction 50 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 16, 2016
Opening: $300
Sold for: $625
Including buyer's premium
"Nekudah Bad Reichenhall", photo-montage of 22 persons in the DPC camp Bad Reichenhall, 1948.
Portrait-photographs of 22 persons in Bad Reichenhall DPC camp. Above the photographs appears the inscription "May 1946-May 1948…between mountains and borders we will lead Jews…" (Hebrew), and below - illustration of refugees in a forest and illustration of the ship Exodus arriving at the shores of Israel.
Photograph: 23X16.5 cm, mounted on cardboard 31.5X26 cm. Photograph in good condition, with some stains and damages. Stains and tears to cardboard.
Portrait-photographs of 22 persons in Bad Reichenhall DPC camp. Above the photographs appears the inscription "May 1946-May 1948…between mountains and borders we will lead Jews…" (Hebrew), and below - illustration of refugees in a forest and illustration of the ship Exodus arriving at the shores of Israel.
Photograph: 23X16.5 cm, mounted on cardboard 31.5X26 cm. Photograph in good condition, with some stains and damages. Stains and tears to cardboard.
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Anti-Semitism, The Holocaust and She'erit Ha-Pletah in Europe and Cyprus
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Auction 50 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 16, 2016
Opening: $500
Sold for: $625
Including buyer's premium
1-8. Eight photographs from the Wegscheid Displaced Persons Camp, Cabin 44, Linz, Austria, 1947. Titled and dated in print (German).
9. “Shana Tova” greeting card with photograph of parents and child, Linz, 1948.
10. “Shana Tova” greeting card with photograph of child and ship with the inscription "Ma'apilim", 1947.
11. Shtar Tena'im (Engagement Terms) in handwriting. [Austria?, June 1945].
Size and condition vary.
9. “Shana Tova” greeting card with photograph of parents and child, Linz, 1948.
10. “Shana Tova” greeting card with photograph of child and ship with the inscription "Ma'apilim", 1947.
11. Shtar Tena'im (Engagement Terms) in handwriting. [Austria?, June 1945].
Size and condition vary.
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Anti-Semitism, The Holocaust and She'erit Ha-Pletah in Europe and Cyprus
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Auction 50 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 16, 2016
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.
* 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.
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Anti-Semitism, The Holocaust and She'erit Ha-Pletah in Europe and Cyprus
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Auction 50 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 16, 2016
Opening: $2,500
Sold for: $3,125
Including buyer's premium
Photograph album, membership card and program of the “Kazet Theater” (Concentration Camp Theater) at the Bergen-Belsen Displaced Persons Camp. [Ca. 1945-1947].
1. Kazet Theater membership card, issued to the actress Sonia Buczkowska, from 1945. With photograph. [4] leaves, 14 cm. Good condition. Stains. Loose leaves.
2. Program for a performance of the “Kazet Theater” in Belgium, organized by the “World Jewish Congress” and the Committee of Jewish Organizations in Belgium. Brussels, 1947. Yiddish. [1] leaf, folded in half, 21 cm. Good condition.
3. Photo album with 25 photographs of the “Kazet Theater” actors, most photographed while performing. Theater stamps on the album leaves and on the photograph backs (some added later). Some of the photographs are stamped on the back with the stamp of Sami Feder, director of the “Kazet Theater”. Photo size varies, ca. 8.5X9.5 cm - 16.5X21 cm. Some of the photographs are later prints. Album: 29X19 cm. Good condition.
The Bergen-Belsen Displaced Persons Camp led an active political and cultural life, with many active organizations and institutions, including the “Kazet Theater”. The theater was founded in 1945 by theater actor and director Sami Feder. In the course of some two years the theater actors staged performances and plays in Yiddish for the Jewish public in the DP camps in Germany. In 1947 they also performed in Belgium, Sweden, England and Paris. After many of the theater actors chose to remain in Paris, the theater’s activities ceased.
1. Kazet Theater membership card, issued to the actress Sonia Buczkowska, from 1945. With photograph. [4] leaves, 14 cm. Good condition. Stains. Loose leaves.
2. Program for a performance of the “Kazet Theater” in Belgium, organized by the “World Jewish Congress” and the Committee of Jewish Organizations in Belgium. Brussels, 1947. Yiddish. [1] leaf, folded in half, 21 cm. Good condition.
3. Photo album with 25 photographs of the “Kazet Theater” actors, most photographed while performing. Theater stamps on the album leaves and on the photograph backs (some added later). Some of the photographs are stamped on the back with the stamp of Sami Feder, director of the “Kazet Theater”. Photo size varies, ca. 8.5X9.5 cm - 16.5X21 cm. Some of the photographs are later prints. Album: 29X19 cm. Good condition.
The Bergen-Belsen Displaced Persons Camp led an active political and cultural life, with many active organizations and institutions, including the “Kazet Theater”. The theater was founded in 1945 by theater actor and director Sami Feder. In the course of some two years the theater actors staged performances and plays in Yiddish for the Jewish public in the DP camps in Germany. In 1947 they also performed in Belgium, Sweden, England and Paris. After many of the theater actors chose to remain in Paris, the theater’s activities ceased.
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Anti-Semitism, The Holocaust and She'erit Ha-Pletah in Europe and Cyprus
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Auction 50 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 16, 2016
Opening: $400
Sold for: $625
Including buyer's premium
Collection of documents from the estate of Adam Scheinowitz (born in Krakow, 1920), from his stay at the Linz-Bindermichl Displaced Persons Camp, Austria, 1945-1948.
Documents include: * Identity card issued to Scheinowitz in Linz, July 1945. * Identity card issued to Scheinowitz at the Linz-Bindermichl Camp, November 1946. * Small card, D.P. Index Card. * Letter from the Jewish Settlement Committee confirming that Scheinowitz is the secretary of the committee and that in this capacity is entitled to examine all the offices and warehouses at the Linz-Bindermichl Camp no. 64. January 1947. * Certificate of aliya to Palestine (through Famagusta), April 1948. * Additional documents.
Total of 8 documents. Fair condition. Wear, stains and tears.
Documents include: * Identity card issued to Scheinowitz in Linz, July 1945. * Identity card issued to Scheinowitz at the Linz-Bindermichl Camp, November 1946. * Small card, D.P. Index Card. * Letter from the Jewish Settlement Committee confirming that Scheinowitz is the secretary of the committee and that in this capacity is entitled to examine all the offices and warehouses at the Linz-Bindermichl Camp no. 64. January 1947. * Certificate of aliya to Palestine (through Famagusta), April 1948. * Additional documents.
Total of 8 documents. Fair condition. Wear, stains and tears.
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Anti-Semitism, The Holocaust and She'erit Ha-Pletah in Europe and Cyprus
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Auction 50 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 16, 2016
Opening: $300
Sold for: $688
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Unser Land, Informationsblatt des Zentral-Palästinaamtes [Our Land, Information leaflet]. "Bi-weekly, published by the Central Palestine Office in Austria". Three issues. Vienna, August 1949-January 1950. German.
Three issues of the journal "Unser Land", concerning Austrian Jews, their immigration and settlement in Palestine; accompanied by black and white photographs.
Issues no. 1-2 (double issue) and issue no. 4 of the first year (1949), and issue no. 1 of the second year (1950).
44; 32; 24 pages, ca. 21 cm. Condition varies. Ink stamps on the three issues.
Three issues of the journal "Unser Land", concerning Austrian Jews, their immigration and settlement in Palestine; accompanied by black and white photographs.
Issues no. 1-2 (double issue) and issue no. 4 of the first year (1949), and issue no. 1 of the second year (1950).
44; 32; 24 pages, ca. 21 cm. Condition varies. Ink stamps on the three issues.
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Anti-Semitism, The Holocaust and She'erit Ha-Pletah in Europe and Cyprus
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Auction 50 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 16, 2016
Opening: $800
Sold for: $1,125
Including buyer's premium
Collection of documents from the estate of Irma Rothstern (nee Bernstein), born in Hamburg, 1886, who lived during the 1920s in Vienna, fled the Nazis in 1939 to Shanghai together with her son Heinz, and lived there until the early 1950s.
Items include: * Nazi passport in which Rothstern is called "Irma Sarah", stamped with a large red letter J. The passport, issued in 1939, includes stamps that attest to her departure from Germany, through Italy, to Hong Kong. * Four postcards sent to Rothstern in the years 1915-1917 (while she was living in Vienna), two of them sent by her husband and brother, who served in the army during World War I. * Letters of recommendation from her places of employment during the years 1928-1929 (in Vienna and Hamburg) and another letter from 1937. * Three documents from Shanghai, from the early 1950s, and three documents from Hamburg and Vienna from the first half of the 1950s. * Documents related to Irma's son, Heinz Rothstern, born in Vienna in 1915: seven report cards from his school in Vienna (1926-1930), two undated postcards sent to him during that period, a recommendation from a place of employment in Vienna in 1938, three documents from Shanghai from the 1940s-1950s, and two letters of recommendation from Hamburg from the early 1960s.
Irma Rothstern's husband, Isidor, was born in Moravia and lived in Vienna. Apparently, he died before the Nazi rise to power, and did not flee with his wife and son to Shanghai. Enclosed is a photograph of him and a birth certificate from Vienna, 1901, and a certificate from Moravia from 1920.
Total of about 30 items. Size and condition vary.
Items include: * Nazi passport in which Rothstern is called "Irma Sarah", stamped with a large red letter J. The passport, issued in 1939, includes stamps that attest to her departure from Germany, through Italy, to Hong Kong. * Four postcards sent to Rothstern in the years 1915-1917 (while she was living in Vienna), two of them sent by her husband and brother, who served in the army during World War I. * Letters of recommendation from her places of employment during the years 1928-1929 (in Vienna and Hamburg) and another letter from 1937. * Three documents from Shanghai, from the early 1950s, and three documents from Hamburg and Vienna from the first half of the 1950s. * Documents related to Irma's son, Heinz Rothstern, born in Vienna in 1915: seven report cards from his school in Vienna (1926-1930), two undated postcards sent to him during that period, a recommendation from a place of employment in Vienna in 1938, three documents from Shanghai from the 1940s-1950s, and two letters of recommendation from Hamburg from the early 1960s.
Irma Rothstern's husband, Isidor, was born in Moravia and lived in Vienna. Apparently, he died before the Nazi rise to power, and did not flee with his wife and son to Shanghai. Enclosed is a photograph of him and a birth certificate from Vienna, 1901, and a certificate from Moravia from 1920.
Total of about 30 items. Size and condition vary.
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Anti-Semitism, The Holocaust and She'erit Ha-Pletah in Europe and Cyprus
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Auction 50 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 16, 2016
Opening: $500
Sold for: Unsold
Collection of photographs and papers documenting the activity of "Agudat Yisrael" in Bari, Italy, after the Holocaust. Italy (and elsewhere), ca. 1940s-1950s. Hebrew and Italian.
Papers and photographs from the estate of Rabbi Shlomo Ashkenazi, Vice Chairman of the Agudat Yisrael Association in Austria (Vienna) and his son Rabbi Eliezer (Lazer) Ashkenazi (born in Brody, 1902; immigrated to Vienna and later to Italy, where he was one of the leaders of Agudat Yisrael).
Items include: * 16 small photographs (8X5.5 cm.) documenting the activities of members of "Poalei Agudat Yisrael" (baking matzos and more). * Photograph of a Talmud Torah in Ferramonti (1943). * 34 photographs (12.5X8 cm. on average; some are identical to the photographs mentioned above but larger), including a photograph of a kibbutz called Nahlat Binyamin. * Real-Photo postcard issued by the Agudat Yisrael Association and Poalei Agudat Yisrael in Italy, the executive committee, Bari-Rome, with photographs and a text condemning the White Paper + the original leaf used to prepare the postcard. * Letter from member of kibbutz Hanitzhiyim. * Jüdischer Kalender, calendar for the Jewish year 5704 (1944), Ferramonti: A. Grünsfeld, [1943]. Self-published, duplication of typewritten leaves. * Printed leaflet, "On the Eve of Passover 5710 [1950]", published by the Central Religious Committee in Rome. * Personal documents of Rabbi Eliezer Ashkenazi and letters sent to him. * Additional items. Total of some 20 documents and about 50 photographs, and a number of other documents and photographs from Vienna. For additional information on Rabbi Eliezer Ashkenazi, see enclosed material.
Size and condition vary.
Papers and photographs from the estate of Rabbi Shlomo Ashkenazi, Vice Chairman of the Agudat Yisrael Association in Austria (Vienna) and his son Rabbi Eliezer (Lazer) Ashkenazi (born in Brody, 1902; immigrated to Vienna and later to Italy, where he was one of the leaders of Agudat Yisrael).
Items include: * 16 small photographs (8X5.5 cm.) documenting the activities of members of "Poalei Agudat Yisrael" (baking matzos and more). * Photograph of a Talmud Torah in Ferramonti (1943). * 34 photographs (12.5X8 cm. on average; some are identical to the photographs mentioned above but larger), including a photograph of a kibbutz called Nahlat Binyamin. * Real-Photo postcard issued by the Agudat Yisrael Association and Poalei Agudat Yisrael in Italy, the executive committee, Bari-Rome, with photographs and a text condemning the White Paper + the original leaf used to prepare the postcard. * Letter from member of kibbutz Hanitzhiyim. * Jüdischer Kalender, calendar for the Jewish year 5704 (1944), Ferramonti: A. Grünsfeld, [1943]. Self-published, duplication of typewritten leaves. * Printed leaflet, "On the Eve of Passover 5710 [1950]", published by the Central Religious Committee in Rome. * Personal documents of Rabbi Eliezer Ashkenazi and letters sent to him. * Additional items. Total of some 20 documents and about 50 photographs, and a number of other documents and photographs from Vienna. For additional information on Rabbi Eliezer Ashkenazi, see enclosed material.
Size and condition vary.
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Anti-Semitism, The Holocaust and She'erit Ha-Pletah in Europe and Cyprus
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