Auction 30 - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
Historical Archive of Unknown Letters and Documents – Concerning Rescue from the Holocaust
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Huge collection of historical unknown letters and documents, concerning rescue from the Holocaust and caring for war refugees. Activities for rescue of rabbis and yeshiva students that escaped to Vilnius and Japan. Delivery of food packages and clothing to refugees in Siberia and in the Far East. Immigration certificates to Eretz -Yisrael. More.
*Large bunch of letters handwritten and signed by the rescue leader Rabbi Chizkiyahu Yosef Mishkovsky Rabbi of Krynki. *Letters and postcards, by rabbis and yeshiva students from Lithuania, dated 1940-1941, from the time Lithuania was annexed by the Russians who established the independent Lithuanian government. Instructed by Rabbi Chaim Ozer, the yeshivas with their students escaped Nazi occupied Poland, to Vilnius and its region. Some of the refugees indeed survived via Russia (in the trans-Siberian train), from there to Japan, Shanghai, Eretz- Yisrael and America. However, in mid 1941, the Nazis conquered Lithuania and its region and with the assistance of local residents murdered approximately 97% of the Jews who remained there. We shall note some of those who wrote the letters: Rabbi Yosef Zosmonowitz Rabbi of Vilkomir; Rabbi Avraham Abba Resnick Rabbi of Pilviskiai; Rabbi Yosef Berkowitz, head of the "Maharsha Yeshiva" in Ostroh; the brothers Chaim and Isaac Osband from "Telz Yeshiva"; Yeshayahu HaLevi Altman and his companions from "Radin Yeshiva", students of Volozhin, Mir, and Chachmei Lublin Yeshivas who escaped to Vilnius etc. Most of the letters were sent to Chief Rabbi Yitzchak HaLevi Herzog. *Letters by Rabbi Herzog regarding rescue. *Long letter by a rescue emissary, Rabbi Zerach Varhaftig who altruistically traveled from Eretz- Yisrael to Lithuania in his position as representative of "HaMizrachi" and the Jewish Agency. These letters have many details of the attempts to rescue Rabbi Yitzchak Ze'ev of Brisk, Rabbi Aharon Kotler, Rabbi Elchanan Wasserman, Rabbi Aharon Bakst and many other rabbis. *Letters by heads of the world "Agudat Yisrael" movement and by various rabbis in Eretz- Yisrael about the rescue operations etc.
Approximately 55 items, approximately 70 leaves. Various sizes and conditions.
*Large bunch of letters handwritten and signed by the rescue leader Rabbi Chizkiyahu Yosef Mishkovsky Rabbi of Krynki. *Letters and postcards, by rabbis and yeshiva students from Lithuania, dated 1940-1941, from the time Lithuania was annexed by the Russians who established the independent Lithuanian government. Instructed by Rabbi Chaim Ozer, the yeshivas with their students escaped Nazi occupied Poland, to Vilnius and its region. Some of the refugees indeed survived via Russia (in the trans-Siberian train), from there to Japan, Shanghai, Eretz- Yisrael and America. However, in mid 1941, the Nazis conquered Lithuania and its region and with the assistance of local residents murdered approximately 97% of the Jews who remained there. We shall note some of those who wrote the letters: Rabbi Yosef Zosmonowitz Rabbi of Vilkomir; Rabbi Avraham Abba Resnick Rabbi of Pilviskiai; Rabbi Yosef Berkowitz, head of the "Maharsha Yeshiva" in Ostroh; the brothers Chaim and Isaac Osband from "Telz Yeshiva"; Yeshayahu HaLevi Altman and his companions from "Radin Yeshiva", students of Volozhin, Mir, and Chachmei Lublin Yeshivas who escaped to Vilnius etc. Most of the letters were sent to Chief Rabbi Yitzchak HaLevi Herzog. *Letters by Rabbi Herzog regarding rescue. *Long letter by a rescue emissary, Rabbi Zerach Varhaftig who altruistically traveled from Eretz- Yisrael to Lithuania in his position as representative of "HaMizrachi" and the Jewish Agency. These letters have many details of the attempts to rescue Rabbi Yitzchak Ze'ev of Brisk, Rabbi Aharon Kotler, Rabbi Elchanan Wasserman, Rabbi Aharon Bakst and many other rabbis. *Letters by heads of the world "Agudat Yisrael" movement and by various rabbis in Eretz- Yisrael about the rescue operations etc.
Approximately 55 items, approximately 70 leaves. Various sizes and conditions.
The Holocaust, She'erit HaPleita in Europe and in the Far East
The Holocaust, She'erit HaPleita in Europe and in the Far East