Auction 68 Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
Sep 19, 2019 (Your local time)
Israel
 8 Ramban St, Jerusalem.
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LOT 245:

Large Collection of Certificates and Documents – "She'erit Hapletah" and DP Camps

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Approx. 85 certificates, confirmations and documents, many of them bearing their owner's pictures and the stamps of aid organizations and authorities, which were issued for Holocaust survivors in DP camps and elsewhere. Wasseralfingen, Zeilsheim, Muenchenberg, Fritzlar, Pelfing, Munich, Tel-Aviv, Haifa, and elsewhere, the second half of the 1940s to the early 1950s (several items are from earlier or later years). German, Hebrew, English, French and other languages.
Among the items: • An identification certificate for a refugee from the city of Oradea (Transylvania, 1944). • Confirmation issued by The Central Committee of the Liberated Jews, indicating that its owner has family members living in Romania, with a request to assist him in locating them (Munich, 1945). • Confirmation issued by the Central Jewish Committee in Bergen-Belsen, indicating that its owner found his cousin in the city of Frankfurt (Bergen-Belzen, 1946). • Confirmation issued by the Jewish Committee of the city of Munich, indicating that its owner was a prisoner in Auschwitz (Munich, 1946). • Work permit issued by UNRRA to a resident of the Wasseralfingen DP camp (1946). • Handwritten certificate issued by the "Cultural Institution 'Beit Bialik'", to an art teacher at the Stuttgart DP camp (1947). • Two DP camps journalist certificates, issued by the Jewish journals "Undzer Weg" and "Das Wort". • And more.
Size and condition vary. Good-fair overall condition.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.

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