Chamish Chumshei Torah. Gift of Va’ad HaHatzalah. Munich 1947. Printed by the Committee for Publishing Books of Va’ad HaHatzalah. Munich, 1947.
Chamisha Chumshei Torah and Chamesh Megilot, with the commentary of Rash”i and Onkelus. Preceding the title page, a letter of gratitude to the American Nation and President Truman was printed by the rabbis of Va’ad HaHatzalah, on the backdrop of an illustration of the USA flag, in English and on the following leaf, in Hebrew. Colorful lithographic title page.
[2], 60, 55, [1], 56-97, 48, [1], 47-97 leaves, 17 cm.
original binding, slightly stained and falling apart. Fine condition.
Antisemitic walking stick, made of wood, with handle made of ivory/bone.
The ivory handle is delicately and meticulously carved by a craftsman in the form of an Orthodox Jew wearing a kippah, with a stereotypical nose and a somewhat angry expression, with his beard and sidelocks fluttering in the wind.
Total height: 92 cm, screwed-on handle, ivory/bone. A silver ring is fixed on the top part of the stick.
Fine condition. Minimal peeling of the wooden stick. Tiny cracks in the ivory handle. Remnants of gold on the silver ring.
Tehillim Tzeidah LaDerech with prayer service using the Sephard text, and mishnahs for yahrzeits. Jaffe Press, Föhrenwald.
Printed in the DP camp after the Holocaust. With Yafeh L’Tefillah – Chassidic sayings in preparation for prayers.
[2], 165; [103] leaves, 9.5 cm.
Original simple cardboard binding (blemished). Fine-very fine condition.
Collection of 27 postcards with pictures from the concentrations camps and ghettos, including illustrations.
Overall very fine condition.
Eight antisemitic postcards in English and in German (some of the English postcards were actually printed in Germany).
Various sizes, overall very fine condition.
11 postcards, most from Poland, humorous.
Overall very fine condition.
8 postcards with photographs of “typical Jewish figures” including beggars (and even a child collecting donations), a milkman, and more.
Overall fine condition.
* Postcard with a drawing of a Jew holding a goat and the caption “So raubt der Jud das letzte Stück und Armut, Elend bleibt zurük” [“So the Jew robs the last bite and poverty and suffering remain”]. Nazi stamp with swastika on the back of the postcard.
* Postcard with a photograph from the Nazi movie The Eternal Jew (scene with Jews in a synagogue).
Overall very fine condition.
Doll in a Scottish kilt activated by twisting (the mechanism has not been examined) produced in a German factory in the areas that were occupied by America. Including the original box and the writing: Made in US zone Germany. I can dance darling. Trademark.
15 cm.
Fine condition.
Pictorial Review – Vaad Hatzala in Germany. New York, 1948.
Important documentation including rare pictures and facsimiles about the activities of Vaad Hatzala in Germany after the Holocaust, administered by Rabbi Nathan Baruch, who dealt with the rehabilitation of the survivors of the camps in Germany. The report documents, inter alia, support for survivors, setting up kosher kitchens, yeshivahs, group pictures of students studying together after the Holocaust, Talmud Torahs and orphanages. Including a picture of the Vaad rabbis, pictures and letters from the gaon Rabbi Herzog as well as correspondence with high-level political personalities. One of the most important early books with extensive coverage of the activities of Vaad Hatzala immediately following its activities.
254 [8] pp, paper. 29 cm.
Very fine condition. Original color cardboard binding.
* The Palestine Post , May 8, 1945.
* The Palestine Post , May 14, 1945.
* HaAretz , May 3, 1945.
* HaTzofeh , May 10, 1945, enlarged edition with 12 pages dedicated the celebration of the victory over the Nazis.
* Yediot Aliyah Chadashah , organ of the Aliyah Chadashah party, May 11, 1945.
Overall moderate-fine condition. Tears in the folds and margins.
“Pass” [passport]. Jewish passport issued by Gebiet des Oberbefehlshabers Ost [the German Administration in Ober-Ost] on January 28, 1917, with an ink stamp: “Verwaltungsgebiet Litauen” – the Administration in Lithuania.
The passport was issued by the German authorities in the areas that Germany temporarily occupied during WWI [including Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Belarus, and parts of Poland and Courland]. The content is in both Yiddish and German. Among the sections, there are penalties that include five to ten years in prison for a person found without a passport; a person with a fake passport, etc. There are also punishments for anyone who does not report a lost passport within 24 hours.
The passport includes a photograph of the passport holder – an elderly Jewess.
[4] leaves, 15 cm.
Fine condition. Minimal stains. Detached leaves. Wear to the spine.
* Vouchers for food items from the Litzmannstadt ghetto, rare stamp attesting that the card is cancelled due to the death of the voucher bearer.
* Voucher for cigarettes, Litzmannstadt ghetto, rare. The voucher is completely whole. Very fine condition.
* Card of food coupons.
Overall fine condition. Tears and lack in the margins.
* 2 vouchers for bread.
* 2 vouchers for cigarettes.
* 1 voucher for milk.
The vouchers are stamped by Rumkowski, head of the Judenrat.
Overall moderate condition.
* 2 notes with a value of 50 pfennig that were issued in the Lodz ghetto in May, 1940. Very fine condition. Sequential serial numbers .
* 2 notes with a value of 100 cents from the Westerbork concentration camp.
* 2 notes with a value of 10 cents from the Westerbork concentration camp.
Overall moderate-fine condition.
Receipt for a 50-Heller donation to the antisemitic organization ‘The Antisemitic League’ in Austria, with a swastika on the back.
The Antisemitic League (Deutschösterreichischer Schutzverein Antisemitenbund) was an antisemitic organization that started in 1919 with the goal of uniting all the antisemitic organizations.
10×7 cm.
Very fine condition.
Label/sticker with the German caption: “Zur ärztlichen Behandlung ausschliesslich von Juden s berechtigt” and a star of David.
Rare, a similar item is found in the Holocaust Museum in Washington.
7×6 cm. Color, with adhesive remnants.
Very fine condition. Placed in elegant passe-partout. It has not been examined outside of the frame.
* Membership card of the “German Labor Front, ” with the worker’s details, 1937. The German Labor Front was the Nazi party’s labor union; this front replaced all the labor unions that were in Germany before the war, and its most well-known factory was Kraft durch Freude, KdF [Strength through Joy].
* German passport with the Reich emblem, 1940.
* German labor card from the Nazi period, 1935.
Overall very fine condition.
* Reichsmilchkarte, voucher for enriched milk marked J (for Jew), Munich 1941.
* Nährmittelkarte – Munich October 1944.
* Reichsbrotkarte – Voucher for bread, Munich 1944.
Overall fine condition.
Folded anti-Nazi print. Folded, it looks like Hitler’s face, and when the paper is opened, it shows four pigs and the English and Dutch caption: “Where is the 5th pig?”
Folded, it is 9×16 cm; 25×16 cm in the open position.
Very fine condition.
* The Old Jew [ Le Vieux Juif ], color woodcut. Paris, early 19th century.
* The Jewish Barber [ Le Barber Juif ].
* German, parody of the Ten Commandments, “The Ten Commandments in a Battle Against the Jews” [10gebote im kampf gegen die juden].
* Antisemitic French comics, 1890.
* Antisemitic Russian caricature.
* Nazi poster, “In jedes Menſchen Geſichte ſteht ſeine Geſchichte” Aryan politicians vs. Jewish politicians.
Overall fine condition.
Five parts of the antisemitic novel,
Der Ewige Jude –
The Eternal Jew . Bound together with separate title pages. German.
Sue published his 10-volume book,
The Eternal Jew or
The Wandering Jew (
Le Juif Errant ), in 1844-1845. The villain is Rodin the Jesuit who traces immortal treasures in order to achieve world rule. The Jew passed away hundreds of years previously, leaving an ancient treasure behind, and seven heirs battling to obtain it.
The Eternal Jew was published as a serial in
Le Constitutionnel . The newspaper offered Sue a hundred thousand francs for the story, a huge sum in those days, but the newspaper’s profits improved dramatically with circulation rising from 6,000 copies a day to 25,000 copies a day within a short time.
83, 282, 165, 176, 150, VIII pp. 17 cm.
Fine condition. Aging stains. Original semi-leather binding with gilt imprint.
