Lot 2224
Group of 11 Holocaust Medals from the Szperling Collection. Includes: (1) 1983, 40th Anniversary of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 70mm, bronze, 2,000, Polish State Mint, features portion of Warsaw Ghetto Monument (2) 1973, 30th Anniversary of Defeat of Nazi Germany, 59mm, gold-plated bronze, unknown mintage, Shekel Mint, Israel, features Star of David hanging from necklace (3) 2004, Westerbork Transit Camp, 35mm.835 fine silver, unknown mintage, Koninklijke-Begeer, the Netherlands, features flame (4) 2004, Westerbork Transit Camp, 35mm, gold-plated bronze, 1,000, Koninklijke-Begeer, the Netherlands, features flame (5) 1989, Auschwitz Cross Survivors Medal, 42 x 42mm with ribbon, polished steel, over 40,000 awarded to former prisoners, Poland (6) 2004, Rescuing Jewish Children, 60mm, bronze, unknown mintage, Fibru Europ Medailles, Belgium, features woman and three children at table (7) 1980, 35th Anniversary of Majdanek Commemoration, 58mm, brass (90gm), approx. 180 minted, Commercial Automotive Factory, Poland, features boy behind barbed wire (8) 1978, Zivia Lubetkin - Commander in Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 59mm, silver-plated bronze, unknown mintage, Shekel Mint, Israel, features portrait (9) 1990, 45th Anniversary of the Liberation of German Concentration Camps, 57mm, bronze, unknown mintage, UNADIF, FNDIR, ANFROMF, France, features earth surrounded by 5 flying doves (10) 1990, Janusz Korczak, Patron of School, 105 x 75mm, bronze cast, unknown mintage, Special Trade School, Poland, features portrait and Ten Commandments (11)1989, 30th Anniversary of the Janusz Korczak School, 68mm, bronze, unknown mintage, Poland, features stylized human shapes of Korczak and children. All as issued, and as described in "A Catalog of Holocaust Medals: A History Etched in Metal" by Severin Szperling and Julie Szperling. Some of these medals are very difficult to locate. Estimated Value $250 - UP
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