Auction 73 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art
Collection of Letters and Documents from the Estates of Rabbi Jacob Stern and His Wife Yenta – Assistance and Aid to European Jews during the Holocaust – Switzerland and Elsewhere – 1939-1943
Opening: $400
Sold for: $625
Including buyer's premium
About 65 letters, documents and forms documenting the aid activities of Jacob and Yenta Stern, managers of a Jewish children's home in Langenbruck, for European Jews during the Holocaust. Switzerland, France and elsewhere, 1939-1943. German. Some French and Dutch.
Rabbi Jacob Stern and his wife Yenta escaped Nazi Germany to Switzerland. During the war, the couple managed a children's home in the Waldek hotel building in Langenbruck, Switzerland, which housed about 50 Jewish children from religious families who had escaped the Third Reich. This collection documents their attempts to assist Jews in Nazi-occupied countries.
The collection includes:
· Three receipts for food products sent to Belgium, issued by the customs and export authorities of Switzerland (with the surename "Auffenberg" noted in two of the receipts). September-October 1940.
· Seven letters concerning food packages and money sent to Dr. Julius Juer, a Jewish prisoner in the Gurs internment camp (southern France). Exchanged between Jacob Stern, the prisoner's wife in Nice and the owner of the Swiss department store "Warenhaus Brann", Julius Brann. November-December 1940.
· Nineteen letters, documents and forms concerning food packages and money sent to Marcus Kanarek, a Jewish prisoner in the Gurs internment camp. Exchanged between Jacob and Yenta Stern, the prisoner's daughter in Kaunas, his sister in New York and various financial institutions in Switzerland. 1941.
· Nine letters sent to Jacob Stern from various countries in Europe, requesting aid for Jews (two are written on postcards sent from Toulouse). 1940-1943.
· Twelve documents and forms issued by the Relico aid organization: five forms for ordering products, five payment vouchers, a letter and a list of products that can be ordered via Portugal.
· Eight letters, telegrams and greeting cards exchanged between Jacob Stern and his relatives (in Jerusalem, Warsaw and elsewhere), on the occasion of his engagement and marriage to Yenta Erlanger shortly before the outbreak of the war (one of the greetings is written on a photograph of the Sterns on their wedding day). 1939.
· And more.
Enclosed are several original envelopes. Two of them with Nazi Germany postal marks.
Size and condition vary. Good overall condition.
Rabbi Jacob Stern and his wife Yenta escaped Nazi Germany to Switzerland. During the war, the couple managed a children's home in the Waldek hotel building in Langenbruck, Switzerland, which housed about 50 Jewish children from religious families who had escaped the Third Reich. This collection documents their attempts to assist Jews in Nazi-occupied countries.
The collection includes:
· Three receipts for food products sent to Belgium, issued by the customs and export authorities of Switzerland (with the surename "Auffenberg" noted in two of the receipts). September-October 1940.
· Seven letters concerning food packages and money sent to Dr. Julius Juer, a Jewish prisoner in the Gurs internment camp (southern France). Exchanged between Jacob Stern, the prisoner's wife in Nice and the owner of the Swiss department store "Warenhaus Brann", Julius Brann. November-December 1940.
· Nineteen letters, documents and forms concerning food packages and money sent to Marcus Kanarek, a Jewish prisoner in the Gurs internment camp. Exchanged between Jacob and Yenta Stern, the prisoner's daughter in Kaunas, his sister in New York and various financial institutions in Switzerland. 1941.
· Nine letters sent to Jacob Stern from various countries in Europe, requesting aid for Jews (two are written on postcards sent from Toulouse). 1940-1943.
· Twelve documents and forms issued by the Relico aid organization: five forms for ordering products, five payment vouchers, a letter and a list of products that can be ordered via Portugal.
· Eight letters, telegrams and greeting cards exchanged between Jacob Stern and his relatives (in Jerusalem, Warsaw and elsewhere), on the occasion of his engagement and marriage to Yenta Erlanger shortly before the outbreak of the war (one of the greetings is written on a photograph of the Sterns on their wedding day). 1939.
· And more.
Enclosed are several original envelopes. Two of them with Nazi Germany postal marks.
Size and condition vary. Good overall condition.
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