Jak zapobiegać chorobom zakaźnym i jak je zwalczać? [How to prevent and fight Infectious diseases?], by Dr. Stefania Silberberg. Krakow: Żydowska Samopomoc Społeczna [ZSS – Jewish Social Self-Help organization], 1941. Polish.
Jewish medicine in the ghettoes is considered a one-time phenomenon in history – the establishment of a health system by persecuted victims under the threat of death. Immediately after the establishment of the first ghettos, Jewish physicians (whose percentage in the population was very high – approximately 40% of all Polish physicians on the eve of the war were Jewish) started setting up an extensive health system and before long established an efficient, disciplined infrastructure: hospitals, family healthcare centers, women's and children's medicine, social medicine, pharmacies, medical schools and even research labs.
Throughout the years of the ghettos' existence, right up to their destruction, most of the Jewish physicians continued working, providing their services to the inmates of the ghetto, even when the mortality rate of the physicians, who contracted contagious diseases, reached 20 percent.
This rare booklet provides important documentation of medical activity in the ghettos: a healthcare manual for the Jews of the ghetto, written by a Jewish physician in the Krakow ghetto. The manual, published by the JSS organization (JSS – J üdische Soziale Selbsthilfe, the only Jewish help organization given Nazi permission to operate in the Generalgouvernement area), is one of the only publications printed by Jews in the ghettos with permission (the German authorities forbade almost every Jewish publication in the area of occupied Poland). As early as June 1941, JSS representatives requested German authorities for special permission to print 50,000 copies, and after several months received a limited approval to print 10,000 copies to be distributed through the branches of the organization in the various ghettos (see enclosed material).
The manual begins with a short introduction on the subject of bacteria, epidemics and vaccines, followed by three chapters dedicated each to a different disease: Typhus fever (Tyfus plamisty), Typhoid (Tyfus Brzuszny) and Dysentery (Czerwonka) – three common diseases that killed thousands of the Jews in ghettos throughout the war.
The author, physician Stefania Silberberg, is mentioned in several listings on the "Yad Vashem" and the United State Holocaust Memorial Museum websites, and in a list of deceased from Krakow printed in the medical journal Przeglad Lekarski (issue no. 1, July 1945). The listings indicate that Stefania was born in 1898 in Krakow to parents named Hermann and Adela and was a bacteriologist by training. In 1942 she was presumably sent to her death at the Belzec or Treblinka extermination camp.
Rare booklet. Not in OCLC.
14 pp, approx. 23 cm. Good condition. A few stains and blemishes, mostly to cover. Rusty staples.

Nine aluminum and aluminum-magnesium coins, used as currency in the Lodz Ghetto. Poland, 1942-1943.
1. A 10 Pfennig coin, 1942. Obverse: denomination – the digit "10", legend "Der Aelteste der Juden" and a Star of David bordered by two oak tree leaves. Reverse: legend "Litzmannstadt Getto 1942" with a Star of David in the center, decorated with corn cobs.
This coin is of a model issued in the Lodz Ghetto, yet archived when the chief of German Nazi administration of the Lodz Ghetto, Hans Biebow, ordered Chaim Rumkowski to remove the oak leaves and corn cobs from the coin, and change the design of the digit "10" to differentiate it from the design on German coins.
2-4. Three 5 Mark coins, 1943. Obverse: the denomination; a legend across, "Quittung Über"; and a legend on the perimeter, "Der Aelteste der Juden in Litzmannstadt". Reverse: A Star of David, the word "GETTO" and the year 1943.
5-8. Four 10 Mark coins, 1943. Obverse: the denomination; a legend across, "Quittung Über"; and a legend on the perimeter, "Der Aelteste der Juden in Litzmannstadt". Reverse: A Star of David, the word "GETTO" and the year 1943.
9. A 20 Mark coin, 1943. Obverse: the denomination; a legend across, "Quittung Über"; and a legend on the perimeter, "Der Aelteste der Juden in Litzmannstadt". Reverse: A Star of David, the word "GETTO" and the year 1943.
Enclosed: a copy of the 10 Mark coin from the Lodz Ghetto (late minting), with the word "souvenir" impressed obverse.
Size and condition vary.
Provenance: The Morton Leventhal Collection, New York.

Igazolvány, employment confirmation given to Szidónia Feldmann by the international committee of the Red Cross in Hungary (Comité international de la Croix-Rouge, Délégation en Hongrie). Budapest, October 1944. Hungarian.
A confirmation, typewritten in the official stationery of the Red Cross organization in Hungary, indicating that Szidónia Feldmann, daughter of Veronika Márkusz, who was born in Bonyhád, is employed as a clerk at the food warehouse of the Red Cross in Hungary, and requesting the authorities to assist her in her work. With a photograph of the owner of the document (stapled), two stamps of the Red Cross and the handwritten signature of the representative of the organization.
The name Szidónia Feldmann (with her mother's name and her city of birth which appear on the certificate) appears in the database of the USA Holocaust memorial Museum, as a survivor from Budapest.
[1] f, 21 cm. Good condition. Fold lines. Creases and small tears along edges and fold lines. Minor stains.

Through the Night, a Story without Words, 20 Original Lino-Cuts by Erich Glas. Johannesburg (South Africa): Anthony's, [1943 (dated in pencil: 1942)]. English. Limited edition, signed by Glas.
Portfolio with 20 linocuts by Ari Glas, from the series Through the Night, with a foreword by Eric Rosenthal. The series Through the Night, depicting the destruction of European Jewry, was created by Glas in 1942, in Kibbutz Yagur. His granddaughter Hagar Lev recalled its creation: "In the winter of 1942, burning with high fever, a Bauhaus artist hallucinates in his sleep. He envisions unspeakable horrors: oppression, mass killing and incomprehensible horrors taking place in Europe. Still feverish, he starts making sketches…".
Glas wanted to publish the series in Palestine; however, the publishing houses which he approached turned him down, fearing the prints will cause panic. Consequently, he published the series in South Africa, in English (the Hebrew edition was eventually published only ca. 1945).
Only 200 copies of the portfolio were printed. This copy is unnumbered. All 20 prints are signed in pencil by Glas. His signature also appears on the second page: "Ari Glas 1942" (Hebrew).
Ari Glas (born Erich Glas; 1897-1973), an Israeli painter, graphic designer and photographer, born in Berlin. During World War I he served as a pilot in the German Army. In the years 1919-1920, he studied at the Bauhaus school (one of his teachers being Lyonel Feininger), specializing in woodcuts and linocuts. Following the Nazi party's rise to power he immigrated to Palestine and settled in Kibbutz Yagur, where he continued his artistic work. In Israel he Hebraized his name, and joined the Haganah (in whose service he even conducted reconnaissance flights). After the establishment of the State of Israel, he displayed his works in several group exhibitions and illustrated a number of books, including Aesop's Fables, "The Nightingale" (Hebrew) by Hans Christian Andersen, the Kibbutz Yagur Haggadah and more.
[3]; [20] leaves, 32 cm. Original paper portfolio, printed. Good condition. Minor stains, mostly to first leaves, and several small tears to edges. Stains and small tears to the portfolio (to edges and spine).
Not in OCLC.