German Administrative Order to enforce punitive labor

AUCTION 44 | Thursday, June 25th, 2009 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 301
(HOLOCAUST).

German Administrative Order to enforce punitive labor

Typed on stationery of Plaszow Concentration Camp (corrected to "Transit Camp") and signed by the Hauptscharfuhrer Browned. Two punch-holes. 6 x 8 1/2 inches

Plaszow Concentration Camp: 2nd October 1943

Est: $2,000 - $3,000
Plaszów was a Nazi slave-labor camp located in the suburbs south of Cracow, Poland. Commanding the camp was Amon Göth, an SS commandant from Vienna who was known for being uncommonly sadistic in his treatment of prisoners. Göth personally oversaw the liquidation of the Cracow Ghetto, forcing those Jews deemed capable of work into Plaszów where they supplied manpower to several armament factories and a stone quarry. The death rate in the camp was very high due to typhus and starvation and it was infamous for both individual and mass shootings that were carried out there. Plaszów is featured in the Steven Spielberg motion-picture "Schindler's List" about the life of Oskar Schindler. The present document records the punishment of an elderly Jew Isreal (sic) Kramer, born 1874 in Tarnow, Poland, as he was using a towel to wrap his bare feet.