Auction 96 · Lot 146
Group of Letters pertaining to family and communal matters in the aftermath of the Holocaust.
- Estimate
- $200–$300
- Hammer price
- $650
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
author
(HOLOCAUST).
Description
Including (see below):
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* 1. Two Letters Signed from R. Yehoshua Moshe Aronson of Austria’s Union of Rabbis in the U.S. Zone of Occupation. Both addressed to the Agudath HaRabanim, thanking them for sending supplies to survivors for Purim and Passover. (R. Aronson later became a venerable elder within the Chassidic court of Sochatchev in Israel).
* 2. Autograph Letter Signed by R. Ya’akov Goldberger of Szerdahely (Dunajska Streda), Slovakia, concerning an Agunah (chained wife). Szerdahely, 1949.
* 3. Documents bearing testimony that the husband of an Agunah was last seen being forced onto a transport to Auschwitz. Bei Dina Rabah D’Kehiloth Ha’Me’uchadoth, Antwerp, 1954.
* 4. Confirmation of Agency. Document in which a husband grants permission to an agent to divorce his missing wife in the event she is ultimately located. Signed by R. Yitzchak Meir Rapoport. Prague, 1946.
* 5. Jewish Committee of Bialystok. Autograph Postcard Signed to Israel Lieberman of New York regarding missing family members. 1946.

