Auction 84 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art

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

"The Holocaust in the Fields of Poligon" – Manuscript of a Long Work on the Holocaust (Typescript) – Yiddish / Drafts of Additional Stories in Memory of Holocaust Victims

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.
Antisemitism, the Holocaust and She'erit HaPleatah
Antisemitism, the Holocaust and She'erit HaPleatah