Auction 56 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture

Collection of Photographs of Polish Jews from the Holocaust Period - German Documentation and Post-War Documentation

Opening: $500
Sold for: $625
Including buyer's premium
15 photographs of Polish Jews from the Holocaust period. Warsaw, Czestochowa and other locations in Poland, ca. 1943-1946.
1-6. Six photographs - reproductions of visual material from the Holocaust period - printed by the "Jewish Historical Committee" (marked "Żydowska Komisja Historyczna wa Wroctawiu" on reverse), active during the years 1944-1947 and engaged in collecting and documenting historical materials left behind by the Nazis. The photographs document the capture of the partisan fighter Bajla Gelblung; Jews turning over weapons buried in the ground to German soldiers; massacres; and more. Inscription and pen scribbles on reverse of five photographs.
7-13. Seven photographs recording the burial of the victims of the Czestochowa massacre, buried by the city's Jews in 1946. Divided on reverse for use as a postcard and marked on reverse with the stamps of photographer Leib Kusznir.
14. Photograph of two German officers shaving the sidelocks of two Jews.
15. Photograph of two Jews wrapped in prayer shawls at the entrance to their home.
Enclosed: "A Brand Plucked from the Fire" [Hebrew], bookplate for the remains of the library of Jacob Zvi Yoskowitz.
Photographs: 8X12 to 13.5X9.5 cm. Good-fair overall condition. Creases and stains to some photographs.
Anti-Semitism, The Holocaust and She'erit Ha-Pletah, Jewish Brigade
Anti-Semitism, The Holocaust and She'erit Ha-Pletah, Jewish Brigade