Poster in Yiddish and Russian: “They Fought for Our Honor and Freedom.”
AUCTION 59 |
Thursday, June 20th,
2013 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Ceremonial Objects and Works of Art
Lot 226
(HOLOCAUST).
Poster in Yiddish and Russian: “They Fought for Our Honor and Freedom.”
Warsaw, M. Wieckowski, 1948:
Est: $1,200 - $1,800
PRICE REALIZED $2,400
Commemorates the fifth anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Designed by Henryk Hechtkopf (1910-2004), this image was also issued by the Polish Government as a postage stamp. See Judah L. Magnes Museum Catalogue, Witnesses to History: The Jewish Poster (1989) n. 43.