Palastina im Bild

Estimate: $300–$500
Hammer price: Not recorded

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

author

(HOLOCAUST)

printer

Juedische Zeitung

Place

Vienna

Publication

n.d.

Description

53 photographic plates, illustrating scenes of the new Jewish developments in urban and rural Palestine, with a further 5 text plates. Each of the plates are ink-stamped: "Zentralbuecherie, Theresienstadt."

summary

The historic irony is heart-wrenching, wherein these images would have been viewed by Jews imprisoned by the Nazis in the Terezin concentration-("show") camp, and no doubt longing to flee to the Jewish homeland pictured- which of course they were destined never to see

Loose as issued in original pictorial portfolio, expertly repaired. 4to

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