Auction 84 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art

Including: Items from the Estate of Ruth Dayan, Old Master Works, Israeli Art and Numismatics

Album of Photographs and Documents – US Army Interpreter in Post-Holocaust Bavaria

Opening: $200
Sold for: $275
Including buyer's premium
Album containing photographs and documents, which had belonged to Maurice Schellevis (Schellekes). Bavaria, Germany, ca. 1945-46. Schellevis, born in Zandvoort, Holland, in 1922, was a war prisoner in the Ebensee forced labor camp, near Mauthausen. After the war, he served as an interpreter for the American Army in Bavaria and was appointed Mayor of Riederau am Ammersee in the region of Landsberg, Bavaria. He died in Haifa in 1988. The album contains approx. 140 photographs, post WWII (some earlier or later photographs and some family photographs) as well as approx. 25 documents, including: a prisoner release certificate from the Ebensee forced labor camp (May 1945); certificate issued in Landsberg, certifying that the holder was a political prisoner during the war (August 1945); letter of recommendation certifying that after his release Schellevis worked as an interpreter in a US Army field hospital (October 1945); letter from the Red Cross in Bavaria (December 1945); vehicle license for driving in the American Zone in Germany (1946); Driving license (Landsberg 1945); temporary ID issued by UNRRA (December 1946); and other documents. Enclosed: a "U.S Army Interpreter" armband and an additional fabric badge. Size and condition vary. Album: 30X20 cm. Overall good-fair condition. Most of the documents and photographs are mounted to the pages of the album. Stains. Tears to several documents. Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Antisemitism, the Holocaust and She'erit HaPleatah
Antisemitism, the Holocaust and She'erit HaPleatah