Auction 24 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture

Doctor in the Wegscheid Displaced Persons Camp – Linz, Austria, 1947

Opening: $500
Sold for: $813
Including buyer's premium
Seven photos portraying the doctor, Dr. Leopold Kohlberg, and the medical team in the Wegscheid DP camp, barrack 44, Linz, Austria, 1947. Some photos are annotated in the plate "Linz 1947, Lager Wegscheid, Barak 44".
Attached are five letters and personal documents which belonged to Dr. Kohlberg of the days he worked as a doctor in Wegscheid camp. In one of the letters Dr. Kohlberg tells that he is a Jewish refugee, that all of his family was murdered in Poland and that he only has one brother in Palestine. Photos 6X8.5 cm to 8.5X11 cm. Good condition.
Anti-Semitism, the Holocaust and She'erit Ha-Pleita
Anti-Semitism, the Holocaust and She'erit Ha-Pleita