Auction 6 Part 1 Herzel, Zionism, antisemitism and holocaust... autographs, Hagadot, books, stamps, art
Apr 12, 2016 (Your local time)
Israel
 Harav Maimon 2, Jerusalem
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LOT 188:

Theresienstadt - A Book from the lIbrary of the Ghetto and additional Interesting Items

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A. "Die Frau im Feuer", Georg Hirschfeld, 1924. The book is stamped with the stamp of the library of the ghetto.
As part of the special conditions at the ghetto, a library was operated there. The book before us is a novel by a Jewish author, which was adapted into a film in 1924.
B. Postage stamp of Theresienstadt Ghetto, 1943. Mint.
The stamp was issued in Prague and was intended for the use of the ghetto only. The stamp was glued to all packages and postal items that were sent from Bohemia and Moravia to the Ghetto. A prisoner who wanted to receive a package was required to send his request to the "Jewish Council of Prague", which examined his request and sent the addressee this postage stamp, which was supposed to be glued on the package sent to the ghetto.
C. Postcard sent to Berlin as confirmation of the reception of an item by a prisoner of the Ghetto, July 1944.
Since Theresienstadt was an open ghetto, its prisoners were allowed to receive post from outside the ghetto. On the front of the postcard, the name of the prisoner (Neufeld) was written by hand and his precise address in the ghetto. The postcard was sent to Rust in Berlin, and on it are handwritten the prisoner's gratitude for the post he had received. Postmarks of Prague and a purple postage stamp of Hitelr.
D. First Day Cover of postage stamps in memory of Theresienstadt Ghetto, Czechoslovakia 1968. Signed by hand by Rabbi Sinai Adler, a well-known Holocaust survivor, born in Prague, who was a prisoner of Theresienstadt Ghetto and was sent from there to Auschwitz and Mauthausen. His well-known autobiographic book, "Gey Tzalmavet" (The Valley of Death), describes his experiences during the Holocaust. The Jews of the Czech Republic, Rabbi Adler among them, were sent to Theresienstadt Ghetto and from there, east.
E. First Day Cover in memory of Petr Ginz, Terezin, the Czech Republic, 2005. Signed by his sister, who survived the war in the ghetto. Petr Ginz was a child in Theresienstadt Ghetto. As I child in the ghetto, he liked to draw and his surviving drawings are exhibited in Yad Va'Shem and the Jewish Museum of Prague. He was murdered in Auschwitz. A copy of one of his drawings, depicting Earth from the moon, was taken to space by Ilan Ramon. The envelope is signed by Chava Pressburger, Ginz's sister, who survived the Holocaust.
Fascinating collection presenting a variegated mosaic of Theresienstadt Ghetto.
Condition: The book is in good condition. Several pages are detached from the cover. The other items are in very good condition.

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