Auction 26 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture

Poster – Five Years to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising - Linz, 1948

Opening: $2,500
Sold for: $3,500
Including buyer's premium
5 yor geto oyfshtand, poster commemorating five years to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, issued by Beitar commissionership and Tzohar center in Austria. Design: Zvi Zilberman. Linz: Unser Ziel, [1948]. Hebrew and Yiddish.
Illustration of an iron chain connecting between several photos: portraits of Joseph Trumpeldor and Beitar fighters Shlomo Ben Yossef, David Raziel and Dov Gruner ("di ershte yidie bontarn – the first Jewish rebels); Ze'ev Jabotinsky in the Acre Jail; names of Beitar and Tzohar fighters who died during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and a portrait of Joseph Glasman, Beitar member and one of the Vilnius Ghetto Underground Organization leaders during the holocaust. On the lower part of the poster appears a citation in Yiddish from the Jewish Partisans Song: "….mir zenen do!" 61X86 cm. Good condition. Folding-marks, professionally restored tears. Linen backed for display and conservation.
Holocaust and She'erit Ha-Pleita
Holocaust and She'erit Ha-Pleita