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Four Polish banknotes in memory of the camps and the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising – 1, 20, 50, 100 Zloty
Banknotes that were issued in 1986 in Poland in memory of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The banknotes describe the stages of the ghetto: the destruction of the Jewish population by the Germans, the banishment to the extermination camps of Auschwitz, Majdanek, Treblinka and others, the armed resistance of the Jews – January-April-May – the battles against the Germans, Kiddush Hashem and the holocaust of the Polish Jews.
Warsaw Ghetto was the largest ghetto in Europe during the Holocaust. 450,000 Jews lived in the ghetto under grave conditions. Gradually and due to the many transports, their flame of life died out and the thousand years Jewry of Poland came to its end. During the last days of the ghetto, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising began: a blue-and-white flag was raised above the burning roofs; the last of the Warsaw Jews proudly fought the Nazi enemy. Their heroic struggle gave new strength to their brothers in Europe and in the Land of Israel.
Condition: Very good.
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Rare Holocaust Books
1. Bedamayich Chayi (Live in Your blood), Leib Rochman. Signed in the author's handwriting.
Leib Rochman (1918-1978) a famous Holocaust survivor. He became famous after the publication of his book 'Bedamayich Chayi: A Diary 1943-1944', a diary he had written while in hiding during World War II. The book was written in Yiddish and was translated to Hebrew in 1949. Aharon Applefeld wrote of the book: "This is one of the silent and non-pathetic documentaries written about the Holocaust. This book presents the adult Rochman, who had suppressed his bitter shout".
2. Ghetto by Mark Edelman, first edition, 1945, Polish.
Mar Edelman, the hero of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the deputy of Mordechai Anielewicz during the uprising. The representative of the socialistic, non-Zionist Bond party at the headquarters of the uprising. Due to his objection to Zionism, he remained in Poland after the War and his figure was hidden for many years from the official chronicles. the book before us was written and printed in Polish in 1945 and it is the earliest documentation of the Warsaw ghetto uprising. Rare.
3. Shesh Ha'Shanim (The Six Years), Shalom Rosenfeld, single edition, 1946.
In his youth, Shalom Rosenfeld was active in the Beitar Movement in Poland. He worked as a journalist for the Revisionist Movement and took part in the radio broadcasts of the Etzel. He was among the founders of the Ma'ariv newspaper and one of its regular writers. Later, he was one of its editors. He won the Israel Prize for journalism in 1986.
4. Polish Jewry in the Clutches of the Nazis, Moshe Prager, 1941. Very early.
Moshe Prager, among the most famous authors of the Holocaust. His writing is notable for its description of the strong Jewish faith during the Holocaust. A citizen of Warsaw. In face of the Nazi's destruction and killings, he decided to act to document their deeds. Together with the Joint in Warsaw, he opened a secret office whose object was to gather material about the killings and destruction and smuggle it abroad in order to stimulate global and Jewish publics to act to save the Polish Jews. During his secret actions, he adopted Prager as a surname in name of the Warsaw suburb Praga, where he was born. He was involved in the rescue of the Gur Rebbe and with him he immigrated to Israel during the Holocaust. In Israel, he continued to describe the Holocaust, mainly as a journalist of the Davar newspaper. He founded the Kiddush Hashem Archive for the study and commemoration of the Holocaust.
5. What Buchenwald Really Means, Victor Gollancz, London, 1945
Sir Victor Gollancz (1893-1967), a publicist and publisher in England. Son of a traditional Jewish family. Founded one of the most excellent publishing houses in England. He also headed a charity organization that helped Arab refugees and thus angered Jewish and Israeli bodies. He advocated Jewish-German and Jewish-Arab reconciliation and objected vigorously to the Eichmann Trial. He was awarded knighthood in 1965.
6. Ha'Satan Ve'Hanefesh (The Devil and the Soul) Yoel and Hansy Brand, 1960, First edition. Hand-signed by Hansy Brand.
Yoel and Hansy Brand, among the famous of those on the endless journey to save the Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust. Among the heroes of the Kastner affair. In this book they recall the events of the time.
7. Ferlische in Umkom, Nazin fon Hurben, M.Y. Feigenbaum, 1948, Munich – Survivng Remnants.
M.Y. Feigenbaum, of the initiators and founders of the Central Historical Committee of the Committee of the Surviving Remnants in the American area in Germany.
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Anti-Semite postcard – sent from Vienna
A postcard sent from Vienna. On the postcard it is written "a political performance that will take place in Northostaben Hall" – a play about a Jew. The communist emblem also appears and a picture of a beggar Jew, connecting Jews, money and Communism.
Condition: Very good.
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The Captivity Symphony, a collection of drawings of a Jewish officer in the British army who had fallen captive by the Germans, Haifa, 1947
The Captivity Symphony – the drawings of Shimon HaCohen, a Hebrew officer in captive. The book, which was published by the author, gathers 96 drawings from the time he had been captive during World War II.
On 29.4.1941, soldiers of the British expeditionary force surrendered to the German army and were taken captive. From about 9,000 soldiers that had been captured, 1,383 were Jewish volunteers from the Yishuv. The author, who drew the pictures, was one of the three Hebrew officers who were captured during the Italy-Greece battle. Amazingly, he and his friends were held in a special prison for British officers and were not executed despite being Jewish.
"In the emptiness of his captivity, a passion and ability to express himself in drawing was surprisingly revealed … this creation strengthens within us the faith in the Hebrew man's liveliness and sensitivity" (from the writing on the cover of the book).
An interesting item!
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Surviving Remnants – an original honor certificate of the 'Stern' Sports Club in Veretzlow, given to Adolf Berman for marking the establishment of Mapam Party uniting 'Poalei Zion' and 'Ha'Shomer Ha'Tzair', 1949
Avraham Adolf Berman (1906-1978) was born in Warsaw to a Zionist family. He received his Ph.D. in Poland parallel to his Zionist activity in the left-winged 'Poalei Zion'. During World War II, he served as the CEO of the Centos Company for helping children in Warsaw. He was a member of the Jewish underground organization in the ghetto and of its presidency. At the end of the war, he was chosen as a delegate of the communist polish parliament and later as the chairman of the Committee of Polish Jews. In 1950, he immigrated to Israel and was chosen as a member of the Knesset on behalf of Mapam and Maki.
The certificate before us was given to Berman by the heads of the 'Stern' sports Club to note the establishment of the Mapam Party. Mapam was a socialistic-Zionist party which was founded in 1948 as a union between 'Mifleget Poalim Ha'Shomer Ha'Tzair' and 'Poalei Zion'. The party identified with the ideology of the USSR and the worldwide communist movement, except for the attitude of the communist movement to Zionism.
The certificate notes Berman's involvement in uniting the socialistic-Zionist parties in Poland, before immigrating to Israel.
Lithographic print designed by Segalle.
Rare!
Condition: Excellent.
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The Jews in Holland – an anti-Semite booklet of the S.S. Commander, 1941
A booklet that was printed during the third Reich and distributed for free in Holland as part of the anti-Semite propaganda by the S.S. commander Paul Kreuzner when Holland was conquered by the Nazis. The booklet contains 46 stereotypical pictures slandering the Jews by depicting their bizarre religious customs, their primitiveness and lack of hygiene. It uses the terminology of Julius Streicher regarding the Jews economically taking over the world. Some of the pictures were taken from the book 'A Vanished World' by Roman Vishniac and crudely edited. The booklet was designated to prepare the public opinion against the Jews of Holland.
Hans Paul Kreuzner (1904-1944) was a member of the Nazi party already in 1930. He was close to the Ministry of Propaganda of Joseph Goebbels and adopted the name Hans Paul Graf von Monts and the title "Graf" in order to sound aristocrat. During the war, he was appointed Auberstomfuhrer and was responsible for the provisions to the front. Kruezner drove luxury cars and lived hedonic life. After being caught by the Nazi for corruption, he committed suicide in 1944, before his trial began.
63 pp. 46 black-and-white pictures.
22.5X15.5 cm.
Rare!
Condition: Very good. Few tears on the cover.
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A Pin of the S.S. units sent from Berlin for the extermination of Warsaw Ghetto
A pin of an S.S. unit for a uniform, hat or lapel. At the bottom of the pin the emblem of the S.S. – two signs of the lightning – appears as well as the symbol of many S.S. units – a skull and swords.
The S.S. (short for the German word Schutzstaffel – Defense Corps) started as the defense and intelligence organization of the Nazi party under Heinrich Himmler. His men were chosen according to the principle of racial purity and complete loyalty to the party. With time, the organization grew larger and many parts of the Nazi regime were controlled by it. Its members were known for their fanaticism and cruelty. The S.S. was responsible for the building and management of the concentration and extermination camps.
Condition: Very good.
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Two rare prayer leaflets – day of victory and establishment of the state of Israel
1. Prayer of thanks and memorial on the day of victory at the Great Synagogue of Tel Aviv, including a prayer of thanks written by the Chief Rabbinate, Mincha, El Male Rachamim, Psalms and verses related to the rescuing of the Jewish nation. 6 pp. 18.5.1945. Fair condition, few slight tears, some mold. Complete and readable.
2. Prayer for the welfare of the State, Jerusalem, 1948. Very good condition.
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A letter of Gideon Hausner, the prosecutor at the Eichmann Trial, to the rabbi of Chemed, Rabbi Shlomo Noah Carole about the case of the Beit Ya'akov girls
"I am still searching for a way to include in the evidence of the trial the case of the Beit Ya'akov girls in Krakow".
The case of the Beit Ya'akov girls in Krakow is the story of 94 Haredi girls, Beit Ya'akov student, who committed suicide so as not be raped by German soldiers during the Holocaust. On 27.7.1942, the 93 girls were captured by the Nazis. They were moved to a building and held in the dark. On August 10, they were taken to a nice, lighted house and were ordered to wash. They were told that Nazi soldiers will later visit them. Understanding the meaning of the visit, they decided to commit suicide by means of poison they had prepared. Before her death, on August 11, one of the girls, Chaya Feldman, wrote a letter to Meir Shenkolvsky, the secretary of the Worlwide Beut Ya'akov Movement and a member of the central committee of Agudat Yisrael in New York. The letter was smuggled out of the ghetto and at the beginning of January reached its destination.
She wrote: "… when this letter reaches you I will not be among the living anymore. In several hours, everything will belong to the past …we are here 93 girls aged 14 to 22, all students or teachers of Beit Ya'akov … the Germans do not know that the bath they had given us was the ritual immersion before our deaths: we have all prepared poison. When the soldiers come, we will drink that poison. We are all saying confession all day. We are not afraid of anything. We have but one request of your honor: say Kaddish for 93 girls of Israel! Soon we will be with Sarah the matriarch".
The story became a founding ethos and myth in the history of Jewish heroism during the Holocaust.
In recent years, there are scholars who challenge the reliability of the story and claim that the suicide had not been accomplished.
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Polish Banknote of 100 Zloty issued in Warsaw in 1934, with overprint of the Generalgouvernement of the Nazi occupation from 1939
On 1.9.1939, the German forces invaded Poland and World War II began. The Germans captured wide parts of Poland (while others were captured by the USSR). On 12.10, Hitler declared an administrative division of the occupied territories, a large part of which were annexed by Germany. The areas that were not annexed, in the districts of Warsaw, Lublin, Radom and Krakow, turned into a general government called 'Generalgouvernement' under the governance of Dr. Hans Frank.
17X9.5 cm.
Condition: Good. Creases.
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