Correspondence from various Agudath Israel and other activists concerning their surviving families, journalistic and other political matters in the immediate post-Holocaust era.

AUCTION 69 | Thursday, June 23rd, 2016 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Holy Land Maps and Ceremonial Objects

Back to Catalogue Download Catalogue

<Previous Lot

/361

Next Lot>

Lot 243

(SEIDMAN, HILLEL)

Correspondence from various Agudath Israel and other activists concerning their surviving families, journalistic and other political matters in the immediate post-Holocaust era.

All written to Hillel Seidman in Hebrew, Yiddish, German and English. Correspondents include: R. Yitzchak Meir Lewin, Siegmund Forst, Dr. Joseph Meisel (Jewish Historical Archives). Discusses rescue activities of Mrs. Sternbuch, whereabouts of Jewish archives, lists of Bnos Agudath Israel members in Paris and members of Kibbutz Chafetz Chaim in Feldafing, etc. c. 20 pages.

(Warsaw, London, Montreux, Jerusalem etc.): 1945-46

Est: $400 - $600

PRICE REALIZED $450

A prominent journalist, Hillel Seidman (1915-95) was Secretary of the Agudath Israel party in pre-war Warsaw and the official archivist of Warsaw’s Jewish Community, including the Ghetto years.