Winner's Unlimited - No. 107
Eretz Israel and Zionism, Postcards and Photographs, Numismatics, Posters, Maps, Judaica, Holy books, Letters from Rabbis and Rebbes - Buyer's commission 22%
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Buchenwald, reproducties naar zijn teekeningen uit het concentratiekamp. 'Buchenwald - Reproductions of Sketches from the Concentration Camp' by Henri Pieck. Het Centrum Press, The Hague (Holland), [c. 1945]. Dutch and English.
Portfolio with harsh illustrations describing inmates in the Buchenwald concentration camp, by Henri Pieck. The case includes an introduction in Dutch and English by Professor R.P. Cleveringa and a leaf with picture titles and short explanations.
32 pages. 34 cm. The plates are in very fine condition. Tears on the edges of the book cover. Detached front binding.
Dachau by Arthur Haulot and Ali Kuci Bruksless 1945, French. Published only two months after the liberation of the camp by the Allies. Published by Est-quest. The rare first edition of the book is before us, with sheets uncut by the press in part of it.
Early book covering the horrors that occurred in the Dachau concentration camp. The book was published in July 1945, about two months after the camp's liberation, and most of it has harsh photographs from the camp as it was discovered by the Allied soldiers on the day they arrived at the camp. There are pictures of prisoners' corpses, gas chambers [which were only partially used in this camp], muselmann prisoners in the camp yard, dead from electrification from the electric fence surrounding the camp, an interesting photograph showing Allied soldiers fighting at the camp gates, dead near the river that flowed near the camp, SS vehicles for transporting corpses, crematoria built outside the camp's fences, prisoners who had died of starvation, human skeletons in advanced decay and more. Before us is rare early documentation of the horrors that occurred in Dachau from a time very close to their occurrence. The binding has an impressive picture of a bleeding crucified prisoner on a swastika.
The Dachau concentration camp, which was located near Dachau, Germany, was set up in an abandoned gunpowder and ammunition factory used by the Nazis for the incarceration of Jews and Soviet POWs. The camp served as a forced labor camp for ammunition production. The Nazis established a "bunker" next to the camp's south gate, used for cruel interrogations, harsh punishment, torture, executions, whipping and hanging. Medical experiments were conducted at the camp, camouflaged as a medical clinic. The SS camp was outside the camp fences, as well as crematoria, where murders and executions were carried out, and a greenhouse and orchard area where prisoners were forced to work in harsh conditions which led to the death of most of them. Approximately 30,000 people were killed in Dachau. Ovens were used to cremate corpses in order to hide the number murdered.
On April 29, 1945 the camp was officially liberated by the American army. The liberators, the 45th division of the 7th US army, were exposed to the horrors of the camp upon its liberation. Even before they entered the camp, they found forty transport vehicles and train cars filled to the roof with corpses in advanced stages of decay, and the closer they got to the camp, the more they came upon the many dead left in the field. Under the influence of the harsh sights, the American soldiers killed German soldiers in the camp indiscriminately, in an event later called "The Revenge of the Dachau Liberation."
Later editions of the book are found in the National Library, the edition before us which is, as stated, the first, does not appear in the National Library.
170 [4] pages. 19 cm. Many leaves appear without the printer's cut, slight tears in the spine. Fine condition.
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Advertising leaflet for the "Entartete Kunst"' [Degenerate Art'] exhibition [Munich 1937]. German. Leaf inviting the public to visit the 'Degenerate Art' exhibition, and "to judge for himself" the quality of the art: "Pathalogic, sick and spiritually rotten, torturing the fabric." Free entry, but forbidden to youth. 20x13 cm. Very fine condition.
The antisemitic exhibition, "Degenerate Art," opened in Munich in July, 1937 and displayed 650 creations of about 100 famous artists confiscated from museums and galleries across Germany [including: Chagall, Munk, Mattias and Kandinsky], with the goal of placing them for ridicule in eyes of public. The exhibition traveled to a number of cities in Germany until 1941. The entire exhibition was accompanied by publications such as booklets, postcards and leaflets creating an atmosphere of antisemitism in the framework of Nazi propaganda. Entry to the exhibition was free and over two million people visited it in the years of its display.
Two official souvenir postcards from the "Degenerate Art" exhibition which was held in Berlin in 1938.
* Official souvenir photograph postcard from the "Degenerate Art" exhibition. Berlin, September - April 1938. Photograph depicting Adolf Hitler and Nazi Minister of Propaganda Josef Goebbels on the front, standing on a balcony waving to saluting crowds. Below, "Der fuhrer auf dem balkon der Reichskanzlei" ["The fuhrer on the balcony of the Reich Chancellery"] is written. German Reich stamp on the reverse, with an image of workers and a flag bearing a swastika waving behind them, and the official stamp from the "Degenerate Art" exhibition - 'Etartete Kunst' from 17/4/1938. 15x10 cm. Very fine condition.
* Official souvenir photograph postcard from the "Degenerate Art" exhibition. Two Third Reich stamps on the back with swastikas and postmark from 10/4/1938 with the name of the exhibition: 'Entartete Kunst' 15x10.5 cm. Very fine condition.
Refer to the previous item for more about the "Degenerate Art" exhibition.
Anti-Jewish postcard, souvenir from the anti-Semitic exhibition "The Eternal Jew." Vienna, 1938.
The reverse bears the stamp "Der Ewige Jude" from the exhibition with a German stamp with a swastika. Sent in the mail.
The Nazi Party propaganda department's anti-Semitic exhibition, "The Eternal Jew" was displayed in Munich from November 1937-January 1938. It was later displayed in Vienna and Berlin (November 1938- January 1939).
Size: 10x15 cm.
Light creases on the bottom. Fine condition.
Five souvenir postcards from the liberation from the Nazi death camps.
* Postcard designed by E. Burner [plate-signed] depicting a prisoner's hands rising up from barbed-wire fences. In memory of those killed in Buchenwald, Dachau and Stutthof. April-May 1945.
* Memorial postcard from the liberation of the Dachau camp depicting prisoners in uniform breaking through the barbed-wire fences at liberation. Official stamp on the reverse: DACHAU-GEDACHTNISKUNDGEBUNG 18/5/47
* Memorial postcard from the liberation of the Dachau camp depicting America's statue of liberty beside the camp's watchtower and barbed-wire fence against the background of the sun's rays breaking through the darkness [symbolizing the camp's liberation], and the date 29/4/1945. Postal stamp stamped 'Liberation Day' [Tag der Befreiung].
* Memorial postcard from the liberation of the Mauthausen camp from 5/5/1945. The front has a picture of a prisoner's hand holding the barbed-wire fence, with two Republic of Austria stamps under it.
* Memorial postcard from the liberation of the Auschwitz camp with a picture of the camp gate: "Arbeit Macht Frei" and a picture of a handcuffed prisoner, sent in the mail in October 1948.
Postcards in an identical size: 10x15 cm. Very fine condition.
Large photograph of a couple [apparently husband and wife] with yellow patches at the front of the photograph.
In April 1941 the German army, under Rommel's command, entered Benghazi, Libya in order to engage the British army in battle, who stood in their way of conquering Egypt. From this date, the tribulation of Libyan Jews started, reaching its climax in April 1942, when three thousand of Benghazi's Jews were sent to to internment camps, mainly Jadu, which is located in the desert level southwest of Tripoli. This was just before their transfer to the extermination camps in Europe. Additionally, over 800 Libyan Jews were transferred to Italy and some were caught by the Germans and sent to concentration camps in Europe, including Bergen-Belsen. In a letter from Mussolini to the governor of Libya, Italo Balbo from 23/1/1939, he writes: 'I permit you to begin the racial laws on the Jews of Libya, and I will remind you that the Jews look dead but never die forever.'
Photographs of Jews from North Africa with yellow patches are very rare, as their numbers were very small compared to European Jewry's. We do not know the identity of the subjects.
Size: 18x24 cm.
Fine condition.
Joint photograph of a group of Jews, apparently members of one family - with yellow patches on their clothes. Poland [?] beginning of the 1940s.
Size: 8x13.
Fine condition.
Temporary identity card printed for a Jew on the reverse side of a geographic map, issued by the American administration in Germany immediately after its conquest by the Allied forces: 27/3/1946
Document from the military government of Germany - the office of the United States Military Government, the United States' highest administrative governing body in the American occupation zone in Germany, immediately after the Second World War. A Jew named Jozef Sztaraka's personal details are noted on the card, along with his fingerprint and signature. This Jew was Hungarian native, then 38 years old and living in Ilz Lager [a Nazi camp in the Passau region - in Bavaria]. According the regulations appearing on the document [in two languages: German and English], the Jew must carry the identity document with him everywhere, and if he is found without the document, he may be arrested. Due to a shortage of paper, the Allies had no choice but to issue documents of this sort on various types of paper in their possession. The document before us was printed on the back side of a geographic map that was cut into pieces corresponding to the size of the temporary certificate, and is stamped by the governor Robert B. Wallace.
The United States' military government was established by the American army a short time after the end of the fighting in Occupied Germany after the German surrender, and was run under the leadership of General Lucius D. Clay. Based in Berlin, the office effectively ran the entire American zone. This body included divisions from the United States, Britain, the Soviet Union and France. It began on January 1, 1946 and functioned in the zone in Germany for four years, until 1949, when rule was returned to Germany. The organization dealt with survivors' needs and returned property looted by the Nazis, destruction of whatever was left of the Nazi party and of Nazi culture, and deepening of democratic values by exposing Germans to American culture.
Size: 20x13 cm. Fold marks. Fine condition.
Four pages handwritten by Holocaust survivor Meir Chalsanowitz. Vivid description of his despondent feelings after losing his family in the Holocaust. Chalsanowitz wrote this on 20/6/1946.
"After six years of grief, tragedy, and suffering that cost me the blood of my dear ones....I throw my body into a vat of boiling water of sulfur fire and burning pitch. These are the baths that I pass over my body....and the heat reaches 45 degrees [113 Fahrenheit], all so that I should sweat and remove the pain that has implanted itself in my bones..." The writer describes how the images of his brothers and sisters who died in the gas chambers pass before him, he describes his daily schedule when everybody around him was caught by the sword "I don't see the sky or the earth, only mountains upon tall mountains...as if they fell from the sky," he describes his bitter loneliness and the mixed feelings, when his only hope stems from his love for his homeland and the rejuvenation of the Jewish Nation in its land. Unique document of a Holocaust survivor written in first-person.
[2] lined leaves. Fine condition.
B'Gay HaHarigah sketches by Lea Grundig, published by HaKibbutz HaMeuchad. HaAretz Press, Tel Aviv 1944.
Seventeen plates with pictures of the horrors of the Holocaust: Treblinka, The Monster, In the Deathcars, Revolt in the Ghetto, Partisans and more. Dedication from 1944 on the inside of the binding.
[1] leaf + [17] picture plates 25x35 cm.
Some stains on the binding. Fine condition.
Olami HaKitantan. Booklet 3. Published by "Express," Warsaw 1939.
Booklet for children edited by Shmuel Rosenhack, published by the Central Committee of "Tarbut" in Poland. Eight issues were published, all in 1939. The booklets include poems and stories in a naive style ["When you play ball, make sure it doesn't fall on anybody's head. If it falls to the ground, please pick it up right away. Don't ask your mother to pick it up!"] Paragraphs written by children in the Tarbut school in Radzin, humor and more.
One of the last vestiges of the vibrant creative life of Warsaw children before the outbreak of the Second World War and the Holocaust that terminated the output of these issues and all Jewish works in occupied Poland.
7 pages. Jacket title page. Very fine condition.