Auction 17 -  Anti-Semitism, the Holocaust and She'erit Ha-Pleita

Siddur Shiyurei Tahara - Copy Belonging to a Prisoner in a Detention Camp in Cyprus

Opening: $300
Unsold
Siddur Shiyurei Tahara, Ashkenazi version. London: Relief Committee of the London Chief Rabbinate, 1946.
An ink-stamp on the title page reads, "Tenuat 'Tora VeAvodah' in Karaolos, Cyprus, Chief Secretariat." An ownership inscription appears on the inner front endpaper, in Hebrew and Yiddish: "This Siddur belongs to the member Israel Dar - Mizrahi Movement, Camp: Sixty, Cyprus, May 15, 1948". On the back cover, the prisoner wrote in Yiddish, a description of life in the camp. It opens with the words, "In memory of my days in the camps in Cyprus" and continues with an account of the religious life in Camp 60, where another prisoner, Rabbi Leibl Kutner, a well known Hassid, established a synagogue and Beit Midrash. [2], 162 pp, 21.5 cm. Fair condition. Stains. Cover damaged and partially detached.
Anti-Semitism, the Holocaust and She'erit Ha-Pleita
Anti-Semitism, the Holocaust and She'erit Ha-Pleita