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WORLD & WARTIME documents, photographs, papers and ephemera
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Soviet tourist souvenir: 23 color postcards of Kiev, 1964. Produced by Radyanska Urkraina in Kiev, the packet is wrapped in an illustrated paper sleeve; it originally numbered 25 cards. The set includes scenes of Bogdan Khmelnitsky Square, the monument to Puskin, Shevchenko State University building, views of the Dniepr River, the Khreschatik thoroughfare, the State Conservatory and more. Produced in a manner that left blank margins on some cards, and the photo production left color blurs - but the pictures capture the images of the 'modern' post-war Soviet Union. The sleeve is worn in places but all cards are in near-mint condition. Interesting.
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Item Code: 0010184 Price: $15
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Newspapers: 3 complete front-page sections of newspapers breaking news of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy - The Jerusalem Post, Ma'ariv (in Hebrew) and The New York Times. Israeli and American / Hebrew and English perspectives of this tragic event. As no Israeli papers are published on Saturdays, the Post and Ma'ariv are dated 24 November 1963; the Times is the November 23rd edition. The 4-page Post section is a special "Extra" edition, containing dramatic photos from the event plus tributes from members of the government and Abba Eban; is folded and frayed at the side edges. The 16-page Ma'ariv section contains 6 pages of news on the assassination including an article entitled "What is Johnson's Position Towards Israel?"; has a two Stars of David hand drawn in the margin and one back-page article has been removed. The 14-page Times section is the Paris edition of the paper, contains 6 pages of event coverage including family and historic photos of Kennedy.
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Item Code: 0020012 Price: SOLD
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A lot of seven postcards from Jordanian-controlled East Jerusalem and Bethlehem. Although undated, these postcards are pre-1967 and by their appearance look like they were published in the mid-'60s. A few have the traditional, old-style rough edge cut of the 1930s-40s. The views include Roman ruins, the Civilian Basilica and the Church of St. John the Baptist of Sabastia, El Aksa Mosque and a general view of Jerusalem, and a general view of Bethlehem. The postcards are unused, though a couple have small dots of glue from where they were placed in an album; all are in very good preserved condition though one has a frayed back.
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Item Code: 0020014.5 Price: SOLD
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Egypt of the 1930's-40's: five black and white photographs of Cairo and the pyramids, 1930s-40s, part of a series of pictures taken by "approved military photographers" - in this case "Number 128" (and stamped as such, by Palphot, on the reverse, with the price of 10 Mils a piece). The photos include a picture of Al-Rifa'i Mosque and Madrasah of Sultan Hasan; a shot of the Citadel (the photo has some brown splatters on the surface); a landscape view of the pyramids of Giza and another view of one of the pyramids with the sphinx in the foreground.
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Item Code: 0020018.6 Price: SOLD
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Postwar Poland/USSR (1946-47): the following 3 documents relate to the movements and whereabouts of a Jewish-Polish Holocaust survivor, Berek Frydman. They give a fascinating insight into the immediate postwar experience of survivors in the eastern bloc, and also of the bureaucracy of the Soviet-Polish authorities of that time.
The first document is a primitive-looking Soviet 'Reference [letter]' issued to citizen 'Fridman, B.' who works in the invalid workers' cooperative "Artel 'Molot'" in the capacity of an at-home shoemaker.' In spite of its improvised appearance, the document bears official counter-stamps, one of which is still pre-formatted to the 1930's: The document was issued on 1 Nov. 1946, in the Yuzhno-Kazakhstan Oblast in Turkmenistan, and signed by the head manageress Olshayetzkaya and her secretary Kandelky. The 'stationary' counterstamp simply states the "invalid cooperative"s name and location.
A subsequent document shows that Frydman was born in a Polish city occupied by the Germans (i.e. not the Soviets) in 1939; Frydman may have escaped the German advance and entered Soviet territory (afterwhich the Soviets may have deported him eastward), or perhaps he survived a camp and was liberated by the Soviets. It may be that Frydman was liberated - that would explain his presence at an invalid's workers' cooperative.
The second document is a Polish work certificate issued by the Employment Office for the Wroclaw (formerly Breslau) district - in the city of Walbryzch, on 8 May 1947 (i.e. 2 years after the Second World War) - though stamped both by the Polish office and by the Soviet administration. It appears that Frydman was repatriated back to Poland, and he worked at an electrical firm. His presence there was confirmed 3 separate times that year by the stamps on the back of the form - until September 1947.
The third document is a Polish-issued temporary certification of identity, issued roughly a year after the reference letter (31 Dec. 1947) by the authorities in the city of Zarad (in the county of Walbrzych) - on Stalina Street #11 (note the predominance of Stalin's name in Eastern Europe at this time) - to Frydman, who is listed as being born in Pulawy. This certificate's validity expired a year later. The document is stamped by the city authorities.
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Item Code: 0010126 Price: $60
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United Nations in Palestine visa documents, 1959-60. A lot of 7 visa request documents placed by the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization for Palestine headquarters in Jerusalem with the Jordanian immigration authorities in Jerusalem. The visa requests were made for Australian, Canadian, Danish and Italian Army officers serving as UN military observers, as well as for the wife of a New Zealand Army observer and Under Secretary of the UNTSO. The UNTSO was established in 1948 to oversee implementation and observation of the Israel-Jordan cease-fire agreement of 1949. The documents were issued and signed by the General Service Officer in the Visa Section of the UNTSO, bearing the stamps of the United Nations, and are all in excellent, preserved condition.
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Item Code: 0010065 Price: $20
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