Auction 79
THE VALMADONNA TRUST LIBRARY: FURTHER SELECTIONS FROM THE HISTORIC COLLECTION. * HEBREW PRINTING IN AMERICA. * GRAPHIC & CEREMONIAL ART
Nov 16, 2018
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242 West 30th Street, 12th Floor, New York NY 10001
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Group of medals awarded to the Austrian-Jewish athlete Gerda Gottlieb. <<*>> With: Personal Diary, 1936-37. Extensive manuscript in German. <<*>> Sporting pins (3). <<*>> Related letters in German from sports organizations.
Medals (all with original case) include: The Makkabiah Games, 1935. * Five consecutive gold medals, Austrian national pentathlon. 1933-37.
Born in 1916, Gerda Gottlieb a swimming and pentathlon champion, at one stage held the world record in the standing high jump. In 1938, following the Anschluss, Gottlieb fled Austria and found sanctuary in the United States.
