Online Auction 021 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture

Collection of Letters – Search for Relatives during World War II and After It

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Five paper items related to the search for relatives during World War II and after it:
* An airograph sent from a branch of the Jewish Agency in London to the representative of the Agency in Jerusalem, containing information about Holocaust survivors in Europe whose relatives were searching for, July 1944. * Letter by the Chief Rabbi's Religious Emergency Council, with a request to track down a Holocaust survivor's sister, who is alone in Belsen, August 1945. * A telegram on a form of the Hungarian Red Cross, which was sent from Újpest, Budapest, to Kibbutz Tel-Yosef, by a father who had not heard from his son for nine months, December 1941. * A typewritten note, which was sent from Palestine to an envoy in Italy, about the search for a man in a camp in the area of Torino (undated). * A printed leaflet, "Telegrams, letters and regards from the survivors among the Jews of Poland who were accepted by the United Committee for Aiding the Jews of Poland, Jerusalem" (Hebrew), Jerusalem, the year of printing is not indicated [ca. 1945-1946].
Size and condition vary. The printed leaflet has tears reinforced with tape.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Antisemitism, Holocaust and She'erit HaPletah
Antisemitism, Holocaust and She'erit HaPletah