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Guez, Gaston. Kinète Mkatilna Tahte Khedmete El-Almane [“Elegy for the Martyrs of the German Occupation.”]

Auction 35 · Lot 131

Guez, Gaston. Kinète Mkatilna Tahte Khedmete El-Almane [“Elegy for the Martyrs of the German Occupation.”]

Estimate
$600–$900
Hammer price
Not recorded

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

(HOLOCAUST)

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Uzan, 27th July

Place

Tunis

Publication

1946

Description

Judeo-Arabic in Hebrew and Latin characters

summary

Between November 1942 and May 7, 1943, Tunisia was occupied by Nazi Germany. Upon arrival, the Nazis established a local council, or Judenrat. There followed large roundups of Jews, individual deportations to European death camps, arbitrary local executions and large-scale plunder. See EJ, Vol. XV, cols. 1447-8
pp.8. Marginal tears, text intact. Loose. 4to
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