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LOT 69:
MeEver LaChomah - Letters from Nazi-Occupied Countries, 1943
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MeEver LaChomah - Letters from Nazi-Occupied Countries, 1943
MeEver LaChomah, Michtavim MeChaverim B'Artzot HaKibush HaNazi. Palestine, April, 1943. [Published by the Committee for Diaspora Affairs of the Jewish Agency's executive committee.] Rare booklet which was published in the midst of the terrible Holocaust, compiled of chilling letters from Jews in the various countries in the diaspora under Nazi occupation. Rare.
Typewritten booklet copied in stencil with 60 letters written by members of the Eretz-Yisrael HaOvedet movement ... in the occupied countries."
The booklet contains various letters written in various places (Warsaw, Western Galicia, Old Romania, Germany, Holland, Bulgaria, Slovakia and more. 1942-1943 describing [Sometimes implicitly and in secret] the bitter fate of European Jewry. They tell of the harsh events as they are happening and call for any and all outside help: "Assistance for our members who were orphaned by the killings in Iasi. Assistance for our members in the Chernowitz ghetto ... to bring a large number of members from the provincial towns. Not to sever ties with the countries with which we can maintain correspondence,' or, for example, in another letter: "We know that the surrounding population in this area was lost to the sword. There are a number of Jews left in Bukovina, but they were almost all sent to Theriesenstadt. There are only a few thousand left in Chernowitz ... In Serbia, close to 300,000 people were slaughtered. Those who escaped were orphaned and many were killed ... until April 1942 all of the members of the kibbutz worked in Bucharest - in forced labor ..." Another letter from 1943: "Due to the economic pressure from the antisemitic laws, our situation is getting worse every day, and the poverty and shortages are increasing. Our main concerns these last months have been to fabricate winter clothes for the 40,000 prisoners in the labor camps in Ukraine, and the refugee problem, thousands of them froze before the Russian offensive began ..." and more.
53 leaves, 21 cm. Stains. Fine condition.
