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Judaica

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WESTERBORK

Concentration Camps – Judaica, cont.
SAC H S E N H A U S E N
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Glasses case (5½x2½”)as well as glasses inside from German
concentration camp Sachsenhausen for a guard. With Totenkopf
skull & bones engraved on cover. Also engraved ‘SS-T.Wachbtl.Sachsenhausen’. Snap closure operates well and in
very fine condition.
585

1944 TRANSIT CAMP CURRENCY ..................... PH $200-300

Two Westerbork transit camp script notes for 50 & 100 cents,
dated 1944 with black serial numbers. Typical soiling and folds,
fine. Westerbork was a Nazi refugee, detention and transit camp
in northeastern Netherlands, handling Roma and Dutch Jews
before sending them on to concentration camps. Anne Frank
and her family were held at Westerbork.

1940s GERMAN SS GLASSES & CASE FROM
SACHSENHAUSEN KZ ........................................ PH $200-300

– DOCUMENTS –

1940s GERMAN CIGARETTE CASE FROM
SACHSENHAUSEN KZ ........................................ PH $200-300

Cigarette case (3x4½”) from German concentration camp
Sachsenhausen with ‘Arbeit Macht Frei’ (work makes you free)
engraved on cover as well as an intricate depiction of the camp.
Snap closure operates well and in fine condition with some
rust spots.
586

1940s SACHSENHAUSEN SECURITY FENCE
INSULATORS ........................................................ PH $200-300

Two electrical insulators (2½x2" diameter) from the perimeter
security fence at Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Used
condition.
587

1941 GERMAN SS CIGARETTE CASE FROM
SACHSENHAUSEN KZ ........................................ PH $200-300

Cigarette case (3¼x5¾”) from the German concentration camp
Sachsenhausen with owner’s initials on lid ‘AT’. Inside cover
engraved ‘SS-T.-Wachbtl.Sachsenhausen 1941’. Operates well
and looks to have been cleaned in the past.
T H E R E S I E N S TA D T
588

D 1945 UNUSUAL THERESEINSTADT KZ
DOCUMENTS ....................................................... PH $200-300

Three documents (5x8") pertaining to former female Theresienstadt concentration camp inmate, Ada Kleinova. Two written
in Czech and one written half in Russian. Many inmates were
staying in the camp after liberation as they were too sick or
simply had nowhere to go. The Russian document allows her
to leave Theresienstadt camp July 23, 1945, and return not
later than July 31, 1945. Likely the Czech documents are similar.

D 1928 BEN-GURION’S HISTADRUT MEMBERSHIP
BOOK ................................................................ PH $3500-5000

David Ben-Gurion’s Histadrut Membership Register, 64 page
booklet(3¼x4½”). Dated 1 Tevet 5689 (December 14, 1928),
first page filled in, not by Ben-Gurion, using Hebrew block
letters, not script, giving his age (42), name of father (Avigdor)
and mother (Scheindel), profession (journalist), association
(office worker), entered Histadrut (since day of founding).
Member Register No. 3. Stamped signature of a Histadrut
official on first page; on back is small photograph (not original
to document) and Ben-Gurion’s handstamped signature. Fine
condition. (University Archives LOA).

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