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LOT 144:

Luach Zikaron - Budapest, 1942 - Extremely Rare / Slichot for the Victims of Auschwitz - 1946

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A. Luach Zikaron (Commemorative Plaque) 1941-1994 (Emlék naptár 52 év időtartamra, 1941-től 1994-ig). Budapest, 1942. Printed on the eve of the Holocaust, which destroyed almost all the Jews of Hungary. Gvirtz printing press.
An extremely rare booklet. Is not listed by the Bibliography of the Hebrew Book or Otzar Ha'Sefer Ha'Ivri.
The booklet contains an approbation by Rabbi Yisrael Weltz Av Beit Din of Budapest (in Hungarian), a preface (Hebrew by Hungarian) by the editor Henrik Freiberg, calendar of the years 1942-1994 (on the lower part of each page, empty lines for writing memoirs), Hazkarat Neshamot, prayers to be said beside the grave, prayers, Kaddish, a table for calculating a boy's Bar Mitzvah day and more.
At the end of the book, dozens (!) of advertisements for Jewish businesses in Budapest (Hungarian).

By the way, the year of 1994, was commemorated in Israel as "the 50th anniversary of the Holocaust of the Jews of Hungary".

71 [1] pp.
Condition: Good. The last leaf (cover) is detached. Wear.

B. Slichot for the 20th of Sivan. Budapest, 1946. Gvirtz printing press.
"Approbated by the genius rabbis … for the killing of our brothers from our country since 1941 and onwards and especially in 1944 and 1945 and for the destruction of the synagogues and Batei Midrash and the extinction of Torah scrolls".
The booklet also contains a special prayer for the victims of the Holocaust, including the Jews of Hungary.
At the beginning of the booklet, a preface by the editors, who refer to "the disaster that befell the Jewish nation when thousands and ten thousands of our brothers were killed and burned".
Includes special laws for a fast that will take place that same day. among others, four paragraphs specifying when to commemorate the Yahrzeit of the victims of Auschwitz.

[12] leaves.
Condition: Good.

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