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LOT 30:

Daily diary written by a Jew in Nazi Germany under Nazi persecution. December 1938

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Daily diary written by a Jew in Nazi Germany under Nazi persecution. December 1938


5 leaves from an unidentified woman 'diary' notebook describing the Nazi persecution and abuse of Jews in Germany, a Nazi procession she watches from the window of her home, and the concern for her husband who left his home and has yet to return. The diary is written in sequence while occurring with deletions and corrections in the form of a line passed by the writer on words or sentences she corrected apparently while writing. The part before us was written on December 14, 1938. A thrilling diary. Hebrew.


Under the headline - December 14, 1938, she writes: "... Heavy rain is falling heavily on the slippery sidewalks ... and penetrate through the shattered glass windows of the Jewish shops ... I look out of my apartment window which is in Grandir Strasse ... In the place where it was only yesterday, the store of our Jewish neighbor now stands SA man  ... I look closely, he does not feel that I am looking for a glimmer of a human degree in his face, But my searches are in vain ... Suddenly he looks up straight in front of my room window, I succeed in time To dodge his gaze and hide behind the curtain ... The Nazi guard suddenly takes his eyes off my window and stretches to raise his hand, I did not understand the meaning of this at first ... ". The woman then describes how the street is filled with Nazi soldiers marching up the street "Sieg Heil", " Sieg Heil" (this was the reason the Nazi raised his hand), and how her young children leap towards the window to watch the procession, and actually enjoy it as a children, and how she herself Dislikes the sight of the Nazi crowd walking down the street, and tries not to enjoy it herself. The woman describes her concern for her husband who has left home and is still not return:"My husband recently went out on the street, and how he will now make his way back home through a lot of  haters Nazis". She goes on to describe how at the end of the procession she sees from the window Nazi soldiers forcing Jews to clean the street: "I remove the children from the window and put them in the inner room ... I go back to the window, the Nazis are flowing, still marching. Finally the procession collector appears. With the appearance of the last marchers, my husband's obvious concern begins to gnaw at my heart again ... At the end of the street, a group of Jews appear, followed by Nazi policemen with machetes ...  in the hands of the Jews are brooms, apparently brought to forced cleaning work, the Jews begin work and above them stand the Nazis watching with seven eyes, that the cleaning is carried out with the purpose of perfection ... ". The woman later describes how the Nazis beat the Jews, including the "old rabbi of the quarter", and adds: "I leave the window and throw my concern on G-d, he will return my husband to me in peace ... but even inside the room I have no rest in my heart." The woman goes on to describe how her husband finally returned home late at night, bruised with blows: "The night is coming, I am laying my children down, but to my husband has no other memory ... My heart is about to be torn from fear and worry i do not notice the time that pass already - at three after midnight there are knocks on the door. Quietly my husband enters the apartment, my heart goes out of joy, I at least get to see him alive. The marks of the beatings on his body are still fresh." and describes what her husband told how he got beaten up by the Gestapo soldiers who forced him to do forced labor and beat him.


Grenadirstrasse - The woman's home is a Jewish street in Berlin in the Stadtteil Spandauer district where Jews have lived since the mid-19th century. At the time of the Nazi occupation, not far away was the Gestapo headquarters.


The pages are written in the first person, and are evidently a small part of all the things written (tear marks of many pages at the top of the diary, the end of the diary is cut in the middle of a description). As stated, the identity of the woman unknown to us.


[5] leaves. The last page is cut in the middle of the lines and is missing, and only about 5 lines appear in it. Diary notebook 30x20 cm. 4 page detached. general condition good.


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