Goldberg Coins and Collectibles

Sale 61

Manuscript, Collectibles and Aerospace Auction

Holocaust Collection

Lot	Photo	Description	Realized
Lot 297		Holocaust Collection. An enormous collection in sixteen binders, including some loose items, largely mounted and annotated in French and/or English, from an estate, with a stunning variety of ghettos, camps (including labor camps, transit camps and death camps), sub-camps, and political prisons represented. Items in the collection include perhaps the last communication from these victims of the Holocaust: formula letter sheets, concentration camp forms, parcel post vouchers for food and supplies, a few identity cards, and other historical documents. Also included are 20 photographs taken by General George Patton's US 3rd Army Engineers during their discovery and liberation of the death camps in 1945, as well as a pair of worn leather and wooden heeled, sandal-type shoes worn by a concentration camp survivor. Articles of clothing from concentration camps are very rare, as most were discarded after Liberation; camp shoes are virtually non-existent and missing in most museum collections. This unique collection of approximately 500 items absolutely should be seen in person to be fully appreciated. The major camps all have individual albums: Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Dachau, Flossenburg, Gross Rosen-Stutthof (known from Schindler's List), Hamburg-Neuengamme, Mauthausen-Gusen, Ravensbrück, and Sachsenhausen. Sub-camps include: Kutno, Korkiew, Kielsce, Kouskic, Bochnia, Belzyce, Preltin, Sterdyn, Bramsche, Anstetten, Linz, Nisko, Newsustrum, Molowitz, Lolositz, Angenberg, Hausstettler, Kaufbeuren, Schweidnitz, Hersburk, Leipzig, Schonholz, Ritschenwalde Riese, Muenster für Ostrow (the very first concentration camp and the first to use poison gas), Kepler Schule, Rastenburg (where von Stauffenberg attempted to kill Hitler on July 20, 1944), Chemnitz, Gemesechafs, Vienna, Wroclaw, Reichpost, Fuestenwalde, Newenkirchen, Rischtenwelde, Newmarkt, Hasel Horst, Pleskau, Pecka, Hradckralov, Mala Fatra, Biberach/Riss, Seltershot, Bellinia, Friedrichshafen, Kaufbeuren, Munich, Kottern, Augsburg, and Haunstetten (the last five were sub-camps of Dachau). Ghettos from which correspondence is present include: Sterdyn, Frytzak, Flogow, Terora, Belchatow, Belzyce, Kosow, Izbica (Wieprz), Kielce, Chmieinik, Glusk, Bistrai, Bychawa, Boroszow, Brzezany, Bochnia, Bramsche Krynszcak, Crakow, Newmarkt, Kielce, Lemberg, Konskie, Lubartov, Kosow, Lemberg, Kopernick, Lublin, and Milejon. A more detailed description of some of the items in this collection is available for those interested. It has been accurately described by Richard Friedemann, a survivor of seven concentration camps, including Auschwitz-Birkenau (see Introduction to Holocaust lots). NOTE: See Lot 77 for a valuable collection of first and second issue stamps from the Litzmannstadt Ghetto . Estimated Value $20,000 - 30,000. Ex Rosedale Collection. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $25,850
Lot 298		Litzmannstadt Ghetto. Located in the town of Lodz, Poland. It was established in early 1940 for Jews and Roma (gypsies) and was the second largest ghetto (Warsaw Ghetto was the largest) in German-occupied Poland. Because Litzmannstadt became a major manufacturer of supplies for the German Army, it was the last ghetto in Poland to be liquidated. In August 1944, the remaining inhabitants of Litzmannstadt were sent to Auschwitz. This lot contains international correspondence to and from the Litzmannstadt Ghetto. It includes: an envelope with both Lodz and Litzmannstadt cancellations and a stamped, historically-important notice: "By order of the Führer" that from April. 11, 1940, the city name of Lodz would be Litzmannstadt; a letter with postal cancellation, "Der Ãlteste der Juden"; a letter cancelled with remark, "Addressed individual can't be located"; postcards with German military seals and censure seals; postcards with stamped return address: "Der Ãlteste der Juden in Litzmannstadt CH. RUMKOWSKI"; postcards addressed to the Ãlteste der Juden; an envelope to ghetto-leader Rumkowsky from the Red Cross--returned because the sender couldn't be found; cards returned because of content or because they were not written in German (Hebrew and Yiddish were forbidden); a Ghetto ID card for Josef Kalinski, 15 years old, with a stamped cancellation dated June 23, 1944, "Went with Transport"--followed by a small gothic "a" which denoted Auschwitz (Beginning in December 1941, deportations to Chelmno and Auschwitz--both death camps--began. Jewish leader Chaim Rumkowski was forced to make the first selection of those who would be sent to their deaths; he and his family were sent to the gas chambers at Auschwitz when the ghetto was liquidated in 1944). Approximately 75 items. Should be seen to be appreciated. NOTE: See Lot 77 for a valuable collection of first and second issue stamps from the Litzmannstadt Ghetto. Estimated Value $2,000 - 3,000. Ex Rosedale Collection. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $1,704
Lot 299		The Joseph Oppenheimer Correspondence, 1937-47. A fascinating Oppenheimer Family archive of many dozens of covers, forms, and documents, principally addressed to Mr. Oppenheimer or his wife in Yonne, France, documentng his successful avoidance of transport to the "final" destination during the Holocaust, and including 19 cards from a friend interned at the SOSNOWITZ camp (in occupied Poland). Included are forms and documents from various Jewish relief groups (post war), covers from international agencies or diplomatic origins, and a Third Reich certificate honoring Joseph Oppenheimer as a World War I veteran of the German Army, for which he received an Iron Cross (Ehrenkreuz für Frontkãmpfer) in 1935, given, ironically, in the name of the Führer and the Reichs Chancellor. Condition varies. Should be seen. Estimated Value $800 - 1,200. Ex Rosedale Collection. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $881
Lot 300		Concentration Camp Prisioner Armband (18 x 4") This black and white printed armband reads: "Strassenbau-Kompagnie / 17" and was worn by prisioners who worked on the Camp streets. It was authorization/permission that they could be on the streets and were not to be shot. A rare armband this writer hasn't seen before. Almost new condition. Estimated Value $500 - 750. Ex Rosedale Collection. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $470
Lot 301		Withdrawn	Unsold
Lot 302		Withdrawn	Unsold
Lot 303		Withdrawn	Unsold