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Auction 2 · Lot 174
(HOLOCAUST). Archbisop of Laodicae.
- Estimate
- $500–$700
- Hammer price
- Not recorded
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
Place
Washington D.C.
Publication
6th July, 1944
Description
Typed letter signed, in English, on headed paper of the Apostolic Delegation United States of America, to Drs. Israel Rosenberg and Abraham Kalmanowitz of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis Emergency Committee, concerning efforts of the Holy See “to impede the massacre of the Jewish population in (Hungary)”
summary
For historical context to this important letter see: P. Lapide, Three Popes and the Jews (1967) pp. 149-62
2 pp. (4ff.), folded, 4to
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