Auction 7
Tiferet Auction House - Special and Rare items
By Tiferet Auctions
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Sep 11, 2019
Beit HaShenhav 12, Givat Shaul, Jerusalem, Israel
Religious articles, Letters from Tzadikim from previous generations , Hasidic books from first print, attributed copies and discoveries from the extermination camps in Europe.
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LOT 155:
Original document from a captain of the Waffen S.S. unit, who served as physician in Auschwitz camp, requiring ...
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Sold for: $200
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Estimated price :
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Buyer's Premium: 22%
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Original document from a captain of the Waffen S.S. unit, who served as physician in Auschwitz camp, requiring equipment for the S.S. officers who dealt with the Jewish bodies in Auschwitz, 25.10.1944.
Printed document by the medical officer of Waffen S.S. in the rank of SS-Hauptsturmführer (captain). The document deals with shipping of medical equipment to the benefit of S.S. officers who dealt with the bodies of Jews deported from the date 23.10.1944. Auschwitz concentration camp 25.10.1944.
[1] Official paper of the Auschwitz concentration camp, signed by the medical officer, with the stamp of Waffen S.S unit.
Background: The Auschwitz concentration camp became a symbol of a "different planet", for its evil and cruelty of the European Jews suffering and torture. From the establishment of the camp in April 1940 until the camps liberation by the Red Army in January 1945. According to the assessments a minimum of 1,200,000 people of them the greatest majority Jews, were killed. This document was written towards the end of the camps existence, after they have been bombed by the the Sonderkommandos, and in preparation for the arrival of the Red Army forces. In the letter is evident the camps routine in those days The proceeding of bureaucratic management of "Labor" evil and horrible concerning for supplies in ordinariness.
Folding mark, very good condition.
