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Auction 43 · Lot 271
The paper trail of Mendel (Max) Abend's flight from Nazi-occupied Austria to safety in Cuba
- Estimate
- $300–$500
- Hammer price
- $300
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
author
(HOLOCAUST).
Description
Texts in English, German, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Yiddish; with passport photographs
summary
Unlike the unfortunate passengers of the St. Louis, a ship of the Hamburg-America line, carrying 950 German Jews who were tragically denied entry by Cuban authorities - the protagonist of this collection of documents, Mendel Abend, a Viennese Jew born in Pruchnik, Poland in 1895, succeeded in obtaining refuge in Havana in March 1939