Bidspirit auction | Ransom of the captives of

Ransom of the captives of Austria: lot of 4 documents from the years of the immigration of Central European Jews, 1933-1940, including a letterhead of the Yishuv's campaign for the immigrants from Austria with the names of Henrietta Szold, Chaim Weizmann, Yitzhak Ben Zvi and the Chief Rabbis, and a German letter of Yom Kippur eve 1940 with a Gmar Chatima Tova wish - Lot of 4 documents: (1) a letterhead of 'Pidyon Shvuyei Austria', the Yishuv's campaign for the immigrants from Austria (MIFAL HAYISHUV LEMAAN OLEI AUSTRIA), Jerusalem, 5 Ben Yehuda Street, founded after the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany in 1938; with an emblem of a family behind barbed wire. Board of trustees: Henrietta Szold, Dr. Aharon Barth, Israel Rokach and Dr. Arthur Ruppin; executive committee: Prof. Chaim Weizmann, Y. Ben Zvi, Rabbis Herzog, Amiel and Uziel, and a long list including S. Tchernichovsky, Hermann Struck, Moshe Smilansky, Dr. A. Zweig, S. Schocken and Colonel F. H. Kisch; (2) a typed family letter in German, 11 October 1940, the eve of Yom Kippur 5701: the writer thanks for a letter that arrived three months late, hopes that God will hear them 'tomorrow' and signs off with the Hebrew handwritten wish 'GaCHaT', Gmar Chatima Tova; the name of God is written with dots (G..t) and the letter uses the word Parnose, livelihood. With a handwritten note in German; (3) a certificate of good conduct (FÜHRUNGSZEUGNIS) of the Police President of Frankfurt am Main, 27 October 1933, for Karl Weil, born in Frankfurt on 24 September 1914: registered with the police from birth until 16 October 1933, with no punishment on record; with police handstamps; (4) a blank application form of the A. L. Levinsky seminary for women teachers and kindergarten teachers in Tel Aviv, asking for the Hebrew and European birth dates, the country of birth, the year of immigration to Eretz Israel and the country of origin, education and who is responsible for the tuition. Condition: folds, creases, stains, tears and missing pieces at the edges, and filing holes, exactly as photographed. Units in lot: 4