Beyond the Wall: Letters from… lands under Nazi occupation. Palestine: [the Histadrut Executive Committee’s Diaspora Affairs Committee], April 1943.
A booklet, typewritten and mimeographed, containing 60 letters that had been sent from countries under Nazi occupation. Many of the letters are written in code, some of which is explicated in parentheses in the body of the text. The letters were sent between 1942 and 1943 from Poland, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, the (Czech) Protectorate, Bulgaria, Albania, Switzerland, a training unit in Germany (apparently the Neuendorf Farm, the last training farm in Germany, which was made into a labor camp in 1941, though the camp authorities allowed the inmates to continue to hold social and Zionist activities), and from prison camps in Germany, among other locations.
Some of the letters are written with such caution that even though they hint at ghettos, instances of death and murder, living in hiding, hunger and transports, the terrible situation of those who wrote them at this stage of the war is not evident.
53 pp., 20.5 cm. Good condition. Small tears at the edges of some of the pages. Stains on the cover. The front cover is partially detached.

"De toutes ces atrocités… nous ne devons pas oublier cela" [all those atrocities…we must not forget]. A poster published by Patrie, Journal des Combattants Français. Printed by Georges Dangon, Paris, [ca. 1945]. French and German.
A poster published by the journal Patrie (journal of French fighters) portraying the atrocities of liberated concentration camps in Germany. A caption in French and German in the center of the poster calls not to forget the Nazi crimes. Illustrations of barbed wire fences with names of concentration camps appearing on signs and very disturbing photographs, of bodies and prisoners released from Dachau and Bergen-Belsen. On the bottom of the poster appears a text in French about the camps (dated May 1945).
45.5X62 cm. Good condition. Some stains. Tiny hole to top corner. Small tears at margins. Poster is mounted on paper and linen-backed for display and preservation.

Approximately 65 letters sent to Shemaryahu Remen, a post office clerk in Palestine, by his family members who survived the holocaust. Berlin, Munich, Siauliai (Lithuania), Lodz and other places in Europe, mid-late 1940s (mostly from 1946-1947). Yiddish, some Hebrew and German.
Most letters are long, and contain an interesting documentation of Jewish life in Displaced Persons Camps after the holocaust. Described in the letters, among other things, are the liberation by the Red Army soldiers, confiscation of property and parcels by Polish officials on the way to the Displaced Persons Camps, corruption and bribery among the managers, attempts to transfer letters by Jewish Brigade soldiers, insisting on assistance to get "certificates" for immigration to Palestine, and other topics.
Most letters are contained in the original envelopes. Two letters from earlier years and three letters are to other addressees (probably acquaintances and other family members). A few letters are written on postcards.
Enclosed: work agreement (printed and filled-in by hand) from 1936, between the Mandate government and Shemaryahu Remen as a post office clerk; nine letters sent to Shemaryahu Remen by the Mandatory postal authorities in Palestine (letters of appointment, change of position and other subjects); about 30 photographs of the Remen family members, from mid-1940s to the early 1950s (some earlier photographs).
Size and condition vary. Good-fair overall condition.