Eight certificates of “Donation for Tree Planting in the Land of Israel on National Land Named for the Martyrs of the Nazi Regime,” design: Prof. Peretz Willenberg [ plate-signed in English].
Impressive design depicting the stages of transition from Holocaust to building: On the right, a building in flames [a synagogue?] and a barbed-wire fence symbolizing the Holocaust, on the left, youth pruning grapevines next to a new building. Trees from the Martyrs’ Forest in the middle, and a Torah scroll with the inscription: יער קדושי פולין [Martyrs of Poland Forest].
There are four certificates from the Rosenblum family, and four from the Kleinman family.
The Martyrs of Poland Forest is part of the Martyrs’ Forest planted by the JNF in the hills of Jerusalem. There are approximately six million trees in memory of the victims, and in various locations there are monuments and boards listing the names of the Jewish communities killed in the Holocaust.
The designer, Peretz Willenberg (1874-1947), became famous for the murals he painted in Poland’s synagogues between the World Wars. During the Holocaust, he painted the walls of the synagogue in Apta. When the Germans arrived, he was in the ghetto there. He suffered greatly during the Holocaust and ended up surviving it on the Aryan side. His daughters were killed in Treblinka. His son, Shmuel, was among the fighters in the Warsaw ghetto, and then one of the instigators of the uprising in Treblinka, and won many decorations from the Polish government. He was the last of the rebels until his passing in 2016.
Except for isolated stains, fine condition.