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From Poland and Czechoslovakia to Palestine, 1946-1947: two legalization leaves of documents for use in Mandatory Palestine, signed by the British consuls in Warsaw and Prague; one of the Jewish Religious Association of Łódź, with the Tel Aviv Registrar's stamp of 30.12.1947 - Two legalization leaves (authentications of signatures) of July 1946: the way a document issued in Poland or Czechoslovakia became valid in Palestine. Each authority confirms the signature of the one before it, and the last link of both chains is the British consul, the representative of the Mandate power . The Tel Aviv Registrar's stamp of 30.12.1947, one month after the UN partition resolution, shows where the document ended up. (1) Łódź and Warsaw, July 1946: the last leaf of a document issued by the Jewish Religious Association in Łódź (Żydowskie Zrzeszenie Religijne) , the body that ran the Jewish community of the city after the liberation and registered births, marriages and deaths, signed by its president Józef Atlas and its secretary Bencjon Bursztyn, with the Association's seal in red ink. The text of the document itself was on leaves that are not in the lot. Below the signatures, a notarial certification (repertorium No. 1257) of 6.7.1946, two days after the Kielce pogrom : Aleksander Rebel, official deputy of the notary Henryk Klesa, 10 Piotrkowska Street, Łódź, certifies that Atlas and Bursztyn signed in his presence. On the other side of the leaf, the chain of certifications, each with cancelled Polish fee stamps (Opłata Stemplowa): the President of the District Court in Łódź, Stanisław Piliczewski, 13.7.1946 (five 10 złoty stamps); the Director of the Legislative Department of the Ministry of Justice, Stefan Bancerz, Warsaw 18.7.1946 (three 5 złoty stamps); the Deputy Director of the Consular Bureau of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Michał Jachnis, register No. 491/46, 19.7.1946 (three 5 złoty stamps); and finally the Consular Section of the British Embassy in Warsaw, 24.7.1946 , signed by the British Pro-Consul, with the royal arms seal and British consular service stamps of 2 shillings and 7 shillings 6 pence. And in a violet box: ”REGISTRAR TEL-AVIV, FEES RECEIVED, 30 DEC. 1947” . (2) Prague, July 1946: a legalization leaf of the Czechoslovak Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Ministerstvo zahraničních věcí), legalization No. 343/46, with a 12 koruna fee stamp (kolek): confirming the signature of a ministerial counsellor, Dr. Ferdinand (surname handwritten, exactly as photographed), and the seal of the Ministry of Justice, Prague 13.7.1946, with the Ministry's seal and the Bohemian lion. Below: ”For the legalization of the seal and signature of the Czechoslovak Ministry of Foreign Affairs at Prague”, 15.7.1946, signed by the British Vice-Consul , with consular service stamps of 2 shillings and 7 shillings 6 pence cancelled by the Consular Section of the British Embassy in Prague, and the royal arms seal. Along the edge, halves of the Ministry's seals and filing holes: the leaf was attached to a document that is not in the lot. The two legalizations were signed nine days apart, in the summer of 1946, when many of the surviving Jews left Poland after the Kielce pogrom. Łódź was then the largest urban concentration of Holocaust survivors in Poland, and the Jewish Religious Association headed by Józef Atlas had been active there since 3 March 1945. Used condition: tears at the upper edge of the Łódź leaf, folds and age spots on both leaves, exactly as photographed.