Collection of Items – Jewish Sports Organizations in Austria and Germany – "Hakoach" Vienna, "Maccabi" Austria and ...

Collection of Items – Jewish Sports Organizations in Austria and Germany – "Hakoach" Vienna, "Maccabi" Austria and more / Second "Maccabiah"
A photograph and three documents of Jewish sports groups in Austria and Germany. Mid 1930s. German and English.
1. Photograph of three swimmers of the "Hakoach" Vienna swimming team, with coach Zsigo Wertheimer. [1930s].
"Hakoach" swimmers (women team) became famous for refusing to participate in the Berlin Olympic games, 1936, due to the Nazi anti-Jewish policy.
10.5X15.5 cm. Good condition.
2. Boarding card to a ship in Haifa port, for participant in the second "Maccabiah" (on behalf of "Maccabi" Austria), 1935. Signed on the back with an the ink-stamp "Palestine & Orient Lloyd".
3. Certificate on behalf of Maccabi World Union given to Jadwiga Dicker towards the second "Maccabiah". [1935].
The certificate confirms that Jadwiga Dicker is a member in the Austrian group that participates in the second "Maccabiah" and is aware of the Palestine government immigration laws. Signed by hand and with stamps of "Maccabi" Austria, "the Second "Maccabiah" and "British Passport Control Office, Vienna".
22.5X18 cm. Good condition. Folding marks and creases. Stains. Pinhole at bottom of leaf.
4. Mitgliedskarte der Sportgruppe Breslau im "Schild", member card in the Jewish sports club Schild in Breslau (Sports Club of the Jewish front soldiers - Reichsbundes Judischer Frontsoldaten), dated September 1938.
A card folded into two, 12X18 cm. Good-fair condition. Restored tear along the folding line. Stains.