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LOT 66:
Bialystok Jewry cries out for help 'The last fortress of the Jewish people'. Kol koreh on behalf of the Bdt'z ...
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Bialystok Jewry cries out for help 'The last fortress of the Jewish people'. Kol koreh on behalf of the Bdt'z DeBiałystok [1945]
A 'Kol koreh from Bdt'z Devialistek! Urgent call for help from our Jewish brethren in America. A poster printed in Bialystok at the end of World War II, depicting the plight of the young men left behind who are now on the verge of starvation in the post-war months. Yiddish.
In the proclamation, the rabbis write: "We turn to you from from afar, the Orthodox Jews in America, those for whom the Jewish people are precious ... Five years of World War destroyed all Jewish life here ... The war expelled our young people from the yeshivot, the great Torah centers were destroyed, and Jacob's voice Silenced ... Now our situation is critical ... Community expenses reach forty thousand marks ... Remember your duty to the Torah of Israel ... Remember the last fortress left and prevent the Jewish people from perishing ... We hope that our reading will resonate with all Orthodox Jews and in particular people from Bialystok and Lithuania", and request that the "Kol koreh" be printed in all the Jewish newspapers in America. Below is the address for sending the Donations.
The critical situation described in the poster refers to the particular situation of Bialystok which was worse than the other cities. This is due to the fact that the Jewish uprising that broke out in the ghetto in 1943 was suppressed, the Nazis set the whole area on fire, and most of its inhabitants (about 60,000) were killed, or transported in cattle cars to Majdanek and Treblinka ("Remember the last fortress and prevent the Jewish people from perishing ..."). Following the heavy fighting that took place in and around the ghetto, almost no remains remained inside the ghetto, so much so that the path of the streets themselves changed.
A rare poster, does not appear in the Ephemera collection in the National Library. On the back of the poster is a long handwritten inscription in Yiddish.
Size: 23x22 cm. Folding marks. Slight tears in margins. Good condition.
