The Holy Bible - Chamisha Chumshei Torah.

(HOLOCAUST)

Vaad Hatzala

Munich

1947

Commentaries of Rashi and Targum Onkelos. Colored title page. Dedicatory pages in Hebrew and English, superimposed over colored Stars and Stripes, dedicating the volume to President Harry S. Truman. “Mr. Herman Landau,” inscribed in gilt on upper cover.

Issued by the Vaad Hatzala Rescue Committee for the benefit of the survivors of the Nazi Holocaust (She’erit Hapleita). This custom-bound copy likely prepared for an American donor. See A.J. Karp, From the Ends of the Earth: Judaic Treasures from the Library of Congress (1991) p. 34 (illustrated).