The Black Album. Tel-Aviv: The Anti-Nazi League, Series A, April 1940. Hebrew, English and French. A complete postcard booklet holding ten postcards. This booklet is a very early public visual documentation, maybe the first of its kind, of Nazi crimes on European soil, especially in Poland. The Anti-Nazi League, which published the booklet in April 1940, aimed to set up "propaganda and publicity in Israel and abroad against the Nazi regime, the Nazi spirit and racial hate". These ideas have been realized in this booklet; not only in the photographs printed on the postcards, but also, and especially, in the introduction added by the anti-Nazi league members. Printed on the inside cover: " Hitlerism means return to the savagery of the dark Middle Ages. In Poland, the Jews are compelled to wear on their backs the yellow badge as reproduced on the envelope of the Black Album. The Black Album contains the first series of pictures disclosing Nazi atrocities in Poland. The Black Album gives a vivid description of the Nazi regime and its cruel systems. Everybody is hereby enabled to unmask Hitlerism by sending the post-cards of the Album to his friends and acquaintances all over the world ". Similar words appear in the introduction: "… In Hitler's Germany, vast concentration camps have been established where Nazi sadists torture their unfortunate victims to an extent never before conceived by human imagination. In these camps of suffering and death, the prisoners, principally Jewish, are submitted to most cruel corporal and spiritual humiliation, to hard labor, starvation and severe molestation leading to aberration of the mind and death ". Each postcard is titled – "Death in Hitler's step", "Nazi hangmen at work", "One of the hundreds of victims in Poland", "Migration of nations into misery", "Nazi victims converted into ashes", and more – and is accompanied by captions specifying some of the methods of Nazi brutality and destruction which were publicly verified and published only years later: death of thousands from disease, cold and hunger; daily execution and hanging of bodies on gallows in central streets of Polish cities; slave labor; cleaning streets with mouths and hands; cremating bodies to ash, etc. The titles are in English. The introduction is in Hebrew and English. The captions are in Hebrew and French. Booklet: 16.5X10.5 cm. Postcards: 14X10 cm. Good condition. Minor damage to cover and edge of one postcard. Stains to cover. A few stains inside booklet.

29 photographs of "She'erit Hapletah" in Europe, including group photographs from DP camps, studio photographs sent to relatives, and more. Germany, Czech Republic, Poland and France, the second half of the 1940s. Collection of photographs taken in Europe after the Holocaust, including group photographs of survivors in the DP camps and studio photographs. Several of the photographs were printed on postcards and some are captioned on verso or bear handwritten dedications. Among the photographs: • Seven photographs of survivors in the Zeilsheim (Frankfurt am Mein) DP camp. Six of them bear stamps of local photographers – "Photo Robinson" and "S. Krotman-N. Bykow". • Six group photographs taken in 1947 in the Auschwitz Extermination Camp and near its entrance. Captioned and dated in the plate: "Oświęcim 1947, Fot. Szajnert". • Photograph of a Passover-night table and alongside it, on the wall, a Star of David and the flag of Israel. Captioned on verso in handwriting (Hebrew): "On Leil HaSeder in Calais (France), the Opera Hall, April 1946". • Photographs from the Föhrenwald and Deggendorf DP camps. • Photograph (on a postcard) of a group dancing the Hora. One of them is carrying the Zionist flag. • And more. 29 photographs, approx. 7.5X5.5 cm to 10.5X14.5 cm. Condition varies. Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.

Five passports and certificates issued to Jewish refugees in Europe at the end of WWII and after it; several of them document trips to Palestine. Romania, Italy, France and Germany, 1945-1949. 1. Certificate issued by the Romanian Red Cross (Comité International de la Croix-Rouge Délégation en Roumanie) to Karl Heinz Leipziger, printed in French, Romanian and Russian. The certificate was issued in Bucharest on March 14, 1945, indicating that its owner is a Jewish refugee from Germany looking for refuge in Romania and is under the protection of the Red Cross. 2. Travel certificate issued by the representative of the State of Israel in Bucharest ("The Special Representative to Bucharest") to Karl Heinz Leipziger. Issued in December 1948; valid for a single trip to Israel. Signed by the "special representative of the Israeli government to Bucharest". 3. Passport issued by the Red Cross (printed in seven languages) to Hersch Tyk. Issued in Rome in February 1948, indicating that its owner is requesting to immigrate to Palestine. With a passport photo, fingerprint, and official Red Cross and "International Refugee Organization" stamps. 4. French Identity card and travel document (France Titre d'Identité et de Voyage) issued to Tauba Borensztajn. The certificate bears confirmations, postage stamps and visas documenting her trips to England and Israel (the visa to Israel is dated May 1949). 5. Temporary Travel Document in lieu of passport for stateless persons and persons of undetermined nationality, issued by the Military Government for Germany (after its conquest by the Allies at the end of World War II). Issued in Bad Salzuflen on April 14, 1949. With a passport photo, British visa to Israel and stamps indicating entrance to Israel. Size and condition vary. Good-fair overall condition. Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.

Pictorial Review, Vaad Hatzala, Germany, 1948. [Munich? New York?], 1948. English. Review of the work of the Orthodox organization "Vaad Hatzala" (Rescue Committee), directed by Rabbi Nathan Baruch, in the displaced persons camps in Germany shortly after the end of the Second World War, with photographs and documents. The photographs and documents deal with subjects including food distribution, kosher kitchens, Jewish education, and the printing and distribution of sacred texts. Also included are photographs of camp rabbis and prominent members of the Committee, and of ceremonies and gatherings, as well as documents pertaining to various organizations, and more. The "Vaad Hatzala" was established in November, 1939 by the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada, in order to help rabbis and Torah scholars escape the ravages of the Nazi occupation of Europe, to places of shelter, mostly in North America, central Asia, and China, and to provide for their material needs there. Later during the war, the "Vaad" began lending assistance to non-Orthodox Jews as well. Following the war, the organization provided assistance to Jewish refugees in the displaced persons camps. [2], 248, [14] pp., approx. 29 cm. Good condition. Stains. Tears, including open tears, to edges of several leaves, some mended. Binding worn and slightly stained. Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.