Auction 84 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art

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

Collection of Photographs – "She'erit Hapletah" in Europe – Photographs from DP Camps

Opening: $300
Sold for: $425
Including buyer's premium
29 photographs of "She'erit Hapletah" in Europe, including group photographs from DP camps, studio photographs sent to relatives, and more. Germany, Czech Republic, Poland and France, the second half of the 1940s. Collection of photographs taken in Europe after the Holocaust, including group photographs of survivors in the DP camps and studio photographs. Several of the photographs were printed on postcards and some are captioned on verso or bear handwritten dedications. Among the photographs: • Seven photographs of survivors in the Zeilsheim (Frankfurt am Mein) DP camp. Six of them bear stamps of local photographers – "Photo Robinson" and "S. Krotman-N. Bykow". • Six group photographs taken in 1947 in the Auschwitz Extermination Camp and near its entrance. Captioned and dated in the plate: "Oświęcim 1947, Fot. Szajnert". • Photograph of a Passover-night table and alongside it, on the wall, a Star of David and the flag of Israel. Captioned on verso in handwriting (Hebrew): "On Leil HaSeder in Calais (France), the Opera Hall, April 1946". • Photographs from the Föhrenwald and Deggendorf DP camps. • Photograph (on a postcard) of a group dancing the Hora. One of them is carrying the Zionist flag. • And more. 29 photographs, approx. 7.5X5.5 cm to 10.5X14.5 cm. Condition varies. Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Antisemitism, the Holocaust and She'erit HaPleatah
Antisemitism, the Holocaust and She'erit HaPleatah