Lot 2225
Israel. Group of 15 Holocaust Medals from the Szperling Collection. Group of 15 Holocaust Medals from the Szperling Collection. Includes: (1) 1993, Polish Philatelic Association, 70mm, silver-plated bronze, 100, Polish State Mint, featuring Israel postage stamp depicting a Warsaw Ghetto fighter (2) 1975, 30th Anniversary of Liquidation of Concentration Camps, 59mm, bronze, unknown mintage, Shekel Mint, Israel, featuring raised arm with tattooed prisoner number (3) 1993, 50th Anniversary of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 70mm, bronze, 500, Polish State Mint, featuring Mordechai Anielewicz, leader of the uprising (4) 1983, 40th Anniversary of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 70mm, bronze, 1,250, Polish State Mint, featuring burning ruins of ghetto (5) 1973, 30th Anniversary of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 59mm, bronze, 3,000, Shekel Mint, Israel, featuring hand holding torch (6) 1974, 30th Anniversary of Majdanek State Museum, 70mm, bronze, 500, Polish State Mint, featuring Monument dedicated to the prisoners of the Majdanek death camp (7) undated, In Memory of the Saloniki Jewish Community, 59mm, gold-plated bronze, unknown mintage, Shekel Mint, Israel, featuring ship in front of White Tower of Saloniki, Greece (8). 1978, 100th Anniversary of Birth of Janusz Korczak, 75mm, bronze (cast), 750 pieces made as awards, features portrait and faces of children (9) 1978, Zivia Lubetkin, Commander in Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 59mm, bronze, unknown mintage, Shekel Mint, Israel, features portrait (10) 1980, Simon Wiesenthal Congressional Gold Medal (in bronze), 76mm, U.S. Mint, portrait (11) 2007, 60th Anniversary of Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 38mm, silver-plated copper, 1,000, ARTMEDAL, Poland, features entrance to the death camp (12) undated, In Memory of the Jewish Children Who Perished in the Holocaust, 59mm, bronze, 59mm, Shekel Mint, Israel, design features butterflies behind barbed wire; and (13) - (15) Emblems of national monuments of remembrance in Buchenwald, Ravensbruck and Sachenhausen Concentration Camps, 65mm, porcelain, made in German Democratic Republic. 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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