“3,000,000 Starving Jews Cry Out for your Help in this the Darkest Tragedy of our Race. An Appeal by Jacob H. Schiff.”
AUCTION 69 |
Thursday, June 23rd,
2016 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Holy Land Maps and Ceremonial Objects
Lot 191
(WORLD WAR I).
“3,000,000 Starving Jews Cry Out for your Help in this the Darkest Tragedy of our Race. An Appeal by Jacob H. Schiff.”
New York: (1918)
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
“You saved them in 1917, will you let them starve now?”
A fund-raising poster for the benefit of destitute Jews of Eastern Europe following the end of World War I.
Jacob H. Schiff was one of the founders of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC).