Autograph Postcard in Hebrew by one Shlomo Slodarz interned in a prisoner-of-war camp (Kriegsgefangenlager) in Nazi Germany, written to his son in Palestine.
AUCTION 54 |
Wednesday, March 21st,
2012 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts Autograph Letters, Graphic & Ceremonial Art
Lot 270
(HOLOCAUST).
Autograph Postcard in Hebrew by one Shlomo Slodarz interned in a prisoner-of-war camp (Kriegsgefangenlager) in Nazi Germany, written to his son in Palestine.
(Germany): 24th October, 1943
Est: $200 - $300
PRICE REALIZED $150
This postcard presents something of an anomaly. At a time when Jews were being killed wholesale in extermination camps, a Hebrew postcard discussing quotidian matters was written by a Jewish father in Germany (who presumably served in the British Army) and freely mailed to his son in Tel-Aviv.