Auction 84 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art
Including: Items from the Estate of Ruth Dayan, Old Master Works, Israeli Art and Numismatics
December 21, 2021
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Auction 84 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art
December 21, 2021
Opening: $350
Sold for: $438
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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.
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Antisemitism, the Holocaust and She'erit HaPleatah
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Auction 84 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art
December 21, 2021
Opening: $250
Sold for: $400
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17 textbooks, children's books, periodicals and booklets printed for "She'erit Hapletah" in Europe, some of them by youth movements. Germany and Austria, 1945-1950. Hebrew, Yiddish and German. Included: • "Pessach-Buch", a collection of articles for the first Passover of She'erit Hapletah in Europe (Marburg, 1946). • "Strengthen your muscles, prepare!", a Yiddish booklet issued by the Betar Movement in Germany, with illustrations and instructions for performing sports exercises (Munich, [1946]). • "Nitzotz" (Spark), the journal of the center of the United Zionist Federation of She'erit Hapletah in Germany and the central management of "Noar Chalutzi Me'uchad" (United Pioneering Youth) (Munich, 1946). • "Etzion", Yiddish booklet issued by the "Mizrachi" Movement and the "Torah VeAvodah" Movement in Austria (Linz-Ebelsberg, 1948). Contains articles about the establishment of Gush Etzion and its destruction, accompanied by several photographs. • "SS Exodus 1947" (Hebrew), a photo-illustrated book describing the story of the illegal immigration and deportation of the illegal immigrants of the SS Exodus (Munich: "Dror" center in Germany, [1947/8]). • Yiddish-Hebrew Dictionary, by Yisrael Yevarchiyahu. "Printed for the children of She'erit Hapletah in the camps of the American zone in Germany" (Germany, 1948). • And more. A complete list will be sent upon request.
Size and condition vary.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Category
Antisemitism, the Holocaust and She'erit HaPleatah
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Auction 84 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art
December 21, 2021
Opening: $150
Sold for: $238
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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.
Category
Antisemitism, the Holocaust and She'erit HaPleatah
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Auction 84 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art
December 21, 2021
Opening: $500
Sold for: $1,125
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Survivants eaux-fortes et pointes sèches originales de Monique Frélaut, présentées par Yanka Zlatin et Dorine Mantoux. [Survivors, Etchings and Drypoints by Monique Frélaut. Published by Yanka Zlatin and Dorine Mantoux]. Paris, 1945. French.
Portfolio with 30 prints by Monique Frélaut (1912-1946) – portraits of Holocaust survivors at the French Hôtel Lutetia (one of the luxury hotels of Paris, which after the war was converted, by order of Charles de Gaulle, into a shelter for Holocaust survivors). The prints document the survivors on arrival, some still wearing camp uniform. 29 printed portraits on loose sheets (with tissue guards) and a single portrait printed on the card cover. A copy signed by the artist and numbered 78 (of an edition of 375 copies). The portfolio was published by the Hôtel Lutetia shelter managers, French Resistance fighters Sabine Zlatin and Dorine Mantoux (referred to on the colophon by their underground names: Yanka and Dorine). Printed dedicatory text to one sheet: "To the friends who were killed by enemy bullets, who were cruelly destroyed, who were starved to death, we dedicate this collection to their mothers, widows, sons and daughters, and to all those who loved them and fought beside them for the same cause and ideal – freedom" (French). Only a few works by artist Monique Frélaut are known of. According to the Bibliothèque nationale de France records, Frélaut was born in 1912 in Nice and died in 1946 in El Ksiba, Morocco. Her uncle was the artist Jean Frélaut (1879-1954).
[29] sheets (some folded in half), 28 cm. Original card cover, with a print. Good condition. Minor blemishes (mainly to tissue guards; prints clean). Cover slightly worn. Browning to spine. Tear to inner front hinge.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Category
Antisemitism, the Holocaust and She'erit HaPleatah
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Auction 84 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art
December 21, 2021
Opening: $150
Sold for: $813
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"The Holocaust! In the Fields of Poligon near Nay-Sventzion [Švenčionėliai], Vilna County, District of Sventzion […]", by Ari Anat Pupisky. [Israel? mid-late 20th century]. Yiddish.
Approx. 200 typewritten pages – chapters from a long work relating the story of a family during the Holocaust. The author's family resided in the Lithuanian town of Švenčionėliai (Nowo-Święciany). The town's Jews, including the author's parents, Ze'ev (Velvel) and Chasia, were murdered by the Nazis and their helpers in the nearby Poligon camp (see: "Svinzian Region; Memorial Book of 23 Jewish Communities (Švenčionys, Lithuania)", Edited by Shimon Kanc, Tel Aviv: 1965). Nonconsecutive pagination (presumably, the work is incomplete). Approx. 200 typewritten pages + [1] title page (handwritten), approx. 21 cm. Good condition. Stains and minor blemishes. Marginal tears to some leaves. Some pages with handwritten corrections. Carbon-paper copies attached to some of the pages. Enclosed :
• Approx. 110 pages – drafts of shorter works by the same author (some typewritten and some handwritten; Hebrew and Yiddish). • Four pages from a magazine, with texts by Pupisky. • Some personal documents.
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Antisemitism, the Holocaust and She'erit HaPleatah
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