Kol Demei Achecha Tzo’akim Eileinu [“The Blood of your Brothers Cry Out to Us.”]

AUCTION 32 | Thursday, March 23rd, 2006 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Autographed Letters, Manuscripts, Graphics and Ceremonial Art

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Lot 130
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Kol Demei Achecha Tzo’akim Eileinu [“The Blood of your Brothers Cry Out to Us.”]

Printed broadside. Hebrew and Yiddish text. Folio

New York: circa 1944

Est: $700 - $900
Issued by the Vaad Hatzalah - Emergency Committee for War-Torn Yeshivoth, seeking assistance for refugees in the United States, Canada, Australia, Latin America, as well as Asiatic Russia: Samarkand, Kazahkstan, Siberia etc. The Vaad Hatzalah sponsored numerous public efforts in seeking to rescue European Jewry, especially rabbis, communal leaders and Yeshiva students. See D. Kranzler, Thy Brother's Blood, The Orthodox Jewish Response during the Holocaust (1987), pp. 3-4, 31; and H. Lookstein, Where we our Brothers' Keepers? (1985) p.201.