Gwrych Castle Year Book 1939/40.

AUCTION 58 | Thursday, May 02nd, 2013 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Autograph Letters

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Lot 152

(HOLOCAUST).

Gwrych Castle Year Book 1939/40.

Mimeographed. Text in English, Hebrew and German. Cartoon illustrations. pp. vi, 67. Stained. Original pictorial wrappers, worn and soiled. 4to.

n.p: (Chewrat Gwrych-Castle) 1940

Est: $800 - $1,200

PRICE REALIZED $1,600

Gwrych Castle is a large country house near Abergele along the northern coast of Wales. It was requisitioned by the British government in order to house some 200 Jewish children who escaped from Nazi Germany via the life-saving Kindertransport network. Without parents and knowing minimal, if any English, the children created in this foreboding castle (originally built by the Normans in the 12th-century) a full-fledged Hachshara-program in which they focused their attention on making suitable preparation toward eventual migration to the Land of Israel.