Auction 73 Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art
Aug 11, 2020 (your local time)
Israel
 8 Ramban St, Jerusalem.
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LOT 230:

Large Collection of Certificates and Documents – "She'erit Hapletah" and DP Camps

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Large Collection of Certificates and Documents – "She'erit Hapletah" and DP Camps
About 85 certificates, confirmations and documents, many of them bearing their owner's pictures and inked stamps of aid organizations and authorities, which were issued for Holocaust survivors in DP camps and elsewhere. Wasseralfingen, Zeilsheim, Münchenberg, Fritzlar, Munich, Tel-Aviv, Haifa, and elsewhere, second half of the 1940s to early 1950s (several later or earlier items). German, Hebrew, English, French and other languages.
Including: · An identification certificate for a refugee from the city of Oradea (Transylvania, 1944). · Confirmation issued by The Central Committee of the Liberated Jews, indicating that its owner has family members living in Romania, with a request to assist him in locating them (Munich, 1945). · Confirmation issued by the Central Jewish Committee in Bergen-Belsen, indicating that its owner found his cousin in the city of Frankfurt (Bergen-Belzen, 1946). · Confirmation issued by the Jewish Committee of the city of Munich, indicating that its owner was a prisoner in Auschwitz (Munich, 1946). · Work permit issued by UNRRA to a resident of the Wasseralfingen DP camp (1946). · Handwritten certificate issued by the "Cultural Institution 'Beit Bialik'", to an art teacher at the Stuttgart DP camp (1947). · Two DP camps journalist certificates, issued by the Jewish journals "Undzer Weg" and "Dos Wort". · And more.
Size and condition vary. Good-fair overall condition.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.

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