Auction 56-a
Leading bid - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
By Kedem tests
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May 31, 2020
קדם מכירות פומביות - רח' רמב"ן 8, ירושלים 9242209, Israel
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LOT 204:
Two Photographs - "Kielce Pogrom", 1946
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Sold for: $500 (₪1,750)
Price including buyer’s premium and sales tax:
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588.50 (₪2,059.75)
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500
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Two Photographs - "Kielce Pogrom", 1946
Two black and white photographs of "Kielce Pogrom" victims, from the funeral and from the hospital. [1946].
1. Photograph from the funeral in the Jewish cemetery - a coffin is buried in a mass grave.
2. Photograph of one of the pogrom's survivors in the hospital, talking to an American reporter. Titled by hand on the back (French).
"Kielce Pogrom" was a massacre executed by Polish citizens against Jewish holocaust survivors, She'erit HaPletah of concentration and extermination camps, following a blood libel. The pogrom broke out after Henryk Błaszczyk, a Polish boy of about nine, testified in the police station (probably guided by his father) that he was kidnapped by Jews and imprisoned in a cellar in their home. Following this testimony, on 4.7.1946, a Polish mob broke into the house in which 'apparently' the boy was held, and attacked cruelly the Jewish tenants. 42 out of 163 Jews who survived the holocaust and returned to the town were murdered.
Approx. 17X11 cm. Good condition. Slight defects.
