Lot 444
Important Letter by Rabbi Yitzchak Meir HaCohen Levine with Early Testimony of the Holocaust of European Jewry
Historical letter from the time of the Holocaust, handwritten and signed by Rabbi Yitzchak Meir HaCohen Levine, (Nov. 22, 1942).
The letter relates "Our people's plight, in the Polish ghettos". He writes "I heard today, terrible indescribable things that are very difficult to believe. For example, two factories exist for murdering people and for removing the fat from their bodies and for crushing their bones". He continues, "The Jews from Belgium, Holland and Germany are being led to their slaughter and death. From Warsaw, 100,000 people were thus taken, from Lublin 50,000 and in Russia they did not leave one person alive."
"… Hitler evidently commanded, to destroy all of European Jewry. Obviously, all is done murkily, and all are just rumors. But unfortunately, many signs indicate that this is true".
Rabbi Yitzchak Meir HaCohen Levine (1894-1971), leader of the" World Agudat Yisrael" in Poland and in Eretz -Yisrael, son-in-law of Rebbe Avraham Mordechai of Gur. Ascended to Eretz -Yisrael in 1940, led the issues of" Charedi Jewry" with the government at the time the state was established, signed the Israel Scroll of Independence and served as minister in the first governments.
2 pages, 24 cm. Good-fair condition, creases.
