Winner's Unlimited - No. 105
Eretz Israel and Zionism, Postcards and Photographs, Numismatics, Posters, Maps, Judaica, Holy books, Letters from Rabbis and Rebbes
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Anti-Semitic caricature of the "Wandering Jew" from the front page of the French newspaper L'Eclipse - Journal Hebdomadaire, February 28th, 1869.
LA RENTREE DE ROCAMBOLE, par GILL Reclame peu deguisee en faveur de la PETITE PRESSE Accompagnee de la Complainte sur l'air du .JUIF-ERRANT.
An image of the wandering Jew in laborer's clothes, sawing the trunk of a tree shaped like an animal with head and feet, is at the center. A text balloon states "Quei Plaisir D'Etra A Bonne." It is surrounded by stanzas of a poem regarding the Wandering Jew by Issac Laqueden.
In the 19th century, many French newspapers published caricatures titled "La Juif Errant" with variations of the stanzas of this poem and illustrations by Francois Georgin.
Size 47x32 cm.
Fine condition.
Antisemitic plate - lithographic print, hand-painted from the period of the printing, published by Epinal. Lithograph by Oliver O. Pinot.
The lithograph is accompanied by verses of an antisemitic poem in rhyme, in French, about the legend of the wandering Jew. A Jew with a long curled beard, and a long nose, holding a walking stick in his hand is in the illustration. The people around him who depict the natives of the place seem much cleaner and tidier than him, and they are all looking at him suspiciously.
Similar lithographs were published in 19th century France bearing the title La Juif Errant in which the poem before us appears with the illustrations of the artist Francois Georgin.
Size: 30x40 cm.
Fine condition.
Six illustrated anti-Semitic posters with Russian text. Russia, c. 1930.
Includes a poster with a train with Jewish passengers with sidecurls and long noses, pulling a chained Russian slave holding a hammer and sickle; a monster with a star of David at its head holding Stalin's head, and more. Some of the posters bear an eagle and swastika - the emblem of the Nazi party. All the posters have Russian text.
All measure: 14x20 cm.
Stains, fine condition.
Postcard sent from a Jewish resident of Warsaw named Haris Lous Landau in 1941. The postcard was sent to Madaine Ugo who lived in Jeueve. German.
The back left features the official stamp of the Judenrat in Warsaw "Judenrat Warschau" with two German stamps in red on the left and right, with the emblem of the Nazi government, the eagle and swastika.
Postcards sent from the Warsaw ghetto during the Nazi occupation are extremely rare today.
11x15 cm. Very fine condition.
Two souvenir postcards from the anti-Semitic "The Eternal Jew" exhibition. Vienna, 1938.
The back of each bears a stamp "Der Ewige Jude" from the exhibition and a German stamp with the Nazi emblem, an eagle with swastika [postmarked].
The anti-Semitic "The Eternal Jew" exhibition, arranged by the Nazi Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propoganda, was held in Munich from November 1937-January 1938. It was later held in Vienna and Berlin (November 1938-January 1939). These postcards were stamped in Vienna.
Size: 14x9 cm. Fine condition.
MAUTHAUSEN Plus jamais ca! - MAUTHAUSEN - Never again!
Binder containing 25 photograph postcards from the Mauthausen concentration camp while it was being run by the Nazis [some of the postcards were photographed on the day the camp was liberated and depict the horrifying sight revealed to the Allies when they entered the camp]. Explanation in French, German and Russian on the reverse. Paris, 1945. Complete binder. Rare.
The postcards show the camp gate with the SS emblem - an eagle with a swatika, watch towers, harsh pictures of inmates handcuffed while being abused, crematoriums, muselmann, hanging poles, corpses, SS soldiers [Himmler and his men], and more. Most of the postcards in the binder are harsh to view.
A picture of a prisoner in an inmate's uniform against a background of smoke rising from the camp is on the cover, by Bernard Albert. On the back of the binding, an inmate in uniform with a description of the various garments. Introduction in French about the structure of the camp, how it was run and the number of people killed, according to country of origin.
The Mauthausen Concentration Camp [Konzentrationslager Mauthausen] in Upper Austria was mainly used for forced labor, it was established in 1938 next to the city of Mauthausen and was initially used for the incarceration of opponents of Nazism. Beginning in 1941, its purpose changed and the Nazis started to imprison many Jews there, mainly from communities in Czechoslovakia and Holland. 38,000 Jews were murdered in the camp, most died of forced labor. The camp was liberated in May of 1945 and was one of the last liberated by the US army.
Very fine condition.
Passport of a Jew named Ernst Salomon Kopolowitz, born in Warsaw, marked with the letter "J" [Jude]. The name Israel was also added, per the racist anti-Semitic laws of the Nazis. Kopolowitz miraculously escaped the Nazi claws. He fled from Poland, traveled through a number of European countries, until he reached Palestine. Includes all the stamps from the countries that he passed through on his journey.
The stamp "J" was added by the Nazis when he was still in Warsaw, only two months after the Nazi law went into effect demanding that Jews mark their passport with this letter, on 16/12/1938. [The law was passed on the 5th of October of that year.] Kopolowitz left Warsaw on the 31st of December, 1938. On the 15th of January, 1939 - about two weeks later - he reached Riga, Latvia. Two days later he arrived in France and, on the 25th of February, he reached Italy. About a month later, on the 20th of March 1939, he arrived in Palestine [the passport bears the stamp of the "Government of Palestine" and of the city of Haifa.]
On the 5th of October 1938, as a supplement to the Nuremberg Laws introduced to isolate the Jews, the Reich issued a law invalidating the passports of Jewish citizens until they were marked with the letter J. On January 1, 1939 another clause was added obligating Jews with "non-Jewish" names to add the name "Israel' or "Sarah."
This is a unique passport where the anti-Semitic additions are clearly marked. The letter J appeared on the 16th of December 1938, before the institution of the law demanding the name "Israel." When the second law came into effect on the 1st of January, 1939, the name "Israel" was added. This name was added to the passport between the first and last name of the passport holder. It was added above the first and last name, obviously after the passport was initially processed. This is different than most known Jewish passports from the era, in which the names Israel and Sarah were included when the passports were first issued. Both Jewish identity marks, the letter J and the name "Israel" appear. There are very few known passports with the letter "J" that were held by Jews who managed to escape the Nazi claws and reach Palestine.
Includes: Eight Nazi Reich stamps with the eagle on top of a swastika, passport picture of Kopolowitz, 10 Latvian stamps, stamps and seals from various European countries where the passport holder fled and Palestine stamps.
The front jacket is partially detached. Fine condition.
Yellow star-shaped cloth with the word "Jude" at center / piece of cloth with number of prisoner 71519. c. 1940. The name of the Jew who wearing the yellow patch was Edward Hoffman.
Source: The Jewish Museum in Brooklyn.
According to the laws of the German Reich, beginning in 1938 every Jew in areas occupied by the Germans was required to wear a yellow patch. The patch had to be at least 10 centimeters, it was to be shaped like a star of David with the word "Jude" in the middle. The patch was worn on the left side of the garment, on one's chest or on the right arm. Jews who forgot to wear the patch when they left the house, or wore a patch that did not adhere to the requirements would be punished with fines or imprisonment. The entrances to homes in Warsaw had large warnings not to forget the patch. A notice to the Judenrat of Bialystock on July 26, 1941 stated that "according to governmental warning, Jews who do not wear the yellow patch will receive dire punishment - possibly shot to death."
The yellow patch measures 10x8 cm. The cloth strip with the personal number: 2.5x6 cm.
The patch and the number are housed in a special case for preservation.
Der Ael Teste Der Juden In Litzmannstadt. Ticket #166600 with a chart of numbers bestowing the right to receive a daily bread ration in the Lodz Ghetto for sixty days. The ticket belonged to a Jewish resident of the ghetto named Rauch. The details were added on the date: 3/6/1942. It was used only six times.
Underneath the lines with the ticket holder's name, there are German instructions regarding the way to receive the bread along with the punishment meted out to people who did not follow these regulations. The ticket is stamped with a large "KR." According to the testimony of the owners of this ticket, this stamp certified that the ticket holder had passed away. It was stamped by the Nazi government so that nobody else would be able to use the ticket.
In contrast to other ghettos where food and basic goods were smuggled in from outside the ghetto; in Lodz, the German authorities were so strict that it was virtually impossible to smuggle anything in. The Jews were completely dependent on the German authorities and Judenrat for food, medicine and any other vital goods. Hunger and disease were rampant. About 164,000 people were forced to live together in 4 square kilometers, of which only 2.4 kilometers were appropriate for residential use. The ghetto was liquidated by the Nazis in 1944. This ticket was used in 1942, considered the most difficult period in the Lodz ghetto, as this was when the Nazi authorities further limited the food rations of the unemployed population.
Size: 14x17 cm. Fine condition.
An antisemitic statue made of pottery - three Jews sitting on a wooden bench clearly idle and bored.
On the inner side is the manufacturer's stamp IM.
In 19th century Europe religious Jews were seen as unproductive and as a burden on general society.
Glued cracks at the bottom of the statue, lack [slight break] in the hat of the Jew on the left hand side.
Length 13 cm Width: 7 cm. Height: 13 cm.
Moderate-fine condition.
huge anti-Semitic pipe, Central Europe. End of the 19th century
The head of the pipe is a Jew with long nose and wearing a hat with prominent anti-Semitic characteristics. The words "smokes lie pipe" are etched in the hat.
37 cm. long. The head is 20 cm. long. Missing the bottom section. Cracks in the wood. Fine condition.
Signed gouache painting on cardboard. Handiwork of professor and historian Tzvi Bachrach [1928-2014].
The painting portrays a prisoner in striped pyjamas staring at a concentration camp, faced by a train stationed at the camp's entrance, the barracks, and the barbed wire. The painting, a reflection of his own personal memories, was created within the first years of his immigration to Israel after the Holocaust [Bacharach immigrated to Israel in 1945 at the age of 18].
Prof. Tzvi Bachrach (1928-2014) was a senior Holocaust and anti-Semitism researcher who personally experienced the hardships of the Holocaust. In January 1942, his family was captured by the Nazis and Bachrach was sent to the Westerbork transit camp, then to the Theresienstadt ghetto, and finally to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. He survived the death marches and was liberated by the American army. His parents did not survive, and he was left behind with his only remaining brother.
Size: 18x13 cm. Fine condition.