Auction 68 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
A Photographic "Shanah Tovah" Postcard – Lodz Ghetto, 1940
Opening: $800
Sold for: $1,000
Including buyer's premium
Photographic postcard from the Lodz Ghetto. Lodz, 1940.
On the postcard, which is designed like a "Shanah Tovah" (Happy New Year) postcard, a boy's portrait appears inside a Star of David being carried in the beak of a bird. On the upper part of the postcard appears the inscription "Litzmannstadt" (the Nazi German name of the ghetto) and on both sides of the portrait, the rest of the inscription – "Getto 1940".
Handwritten Polish words and sentence fragments, and the date 11.XI.41 appear on verso.
8.5X13.5 cm. Good condition. Fractures to the corners of the postcard. Stains. Abrasions on verso.
On the postcard, which is designed like a "Shanah Tovah" (Happy New Year) postcard, a boy's portrait appears inside a Star of David being carried in the beak of a bird. On the upper part of the postcard appears the inscription "Litzmannstadt" (the Nazi German name of the ghetto) and on both sides of the portrait, the rest of the inscription – "Getto 1940".
Handwritten Polish words and sentence fragments, and the date 11.XI.41 appear on verso.
8.5X13.5 cm. Good condition. Fractures to the corners of the postcard. Stains. Abrasions on verso.
Antisemitism, Holocaust and She'erit HaPletah
Antisemitism, Holocaust and She'erit HaPletah