Gwrych Castle Year Book 1939/40.

Estimate

$800–$1,200

Hammer price

$1,600

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

author

(HOLOCAUST).

printer

(Chewrat Gwrych-Castle)

Place

n.p

Publication

1940

Description

Mimeographed. Text in English, Hebrew and German. Cartoon illustrations.

summary

Gwrych Castle is a large country house near Abergele along the northern coast of Wales. It was requisitioned by the British government in order to house some 200 Jewish children who escaped from Nazi Germany via the life-saving Kindertransport network. Without parents and knowing minimal, if any English, the children created in this foreboding castle (originally built by the Normans in the 12th-century) a full-fledged Hachshara-program in which they focused their attention on making suitable preparation toward eventual migration to the Land of Israel.

pp. vi, 67. Stained. Original pictorial wrappers, worn and soiled. 4to.

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