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LOT 156:
Official Jewish National Fund album, in honor of President and Professor Chaim Weizmann's birthday. 1950.
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Official Jewish National Fund album, in honor of President and Professor Chaim Weizmann's birthday. 1950.
Seven Holocaust survivors from Wiesbaden wrote and signed a personal birthday blessing.
Wiesbaden, Germany:
In the Kristallnacht pogrom on November 10, 1938, Wiesbaden's large synagogue on Michelsberg was destroyed. The synagogue had been designed by Phillip Hoffmann and built in 1869. Another synagogue in Wiesbaden-Bierstadt was also destroyed. When the Nazis came to power in Germany, there were 2,700 Jews living in Wiesbaden. By June 1942 nearly all of them had been deported to the death camps in Poland.[12]
General Ludwig Beck from Wiesbaden was one of the planners of the July 20, 1944 assassination attempt of Adolf Hitler. Beck was designated by his fellow conspirators to be future Head of State (Regent) after elimination of Hitler. The plot failed, however, and Beck was forced to commit suicide. Today, the city annually awards the Ludwig Beck prize for civil courage in his honor.
