VI. Paper rarities, manuscripts, documents

a., Social life

 

216.     Typed and hand signed letter of gratitude by Dr. Serédi Jusztinián, cardinal of Esztergom, to the Presidency of the Pest Jewish Community, in response to their congratulation letter on his appointment. („I can assure the Presidency that in the case our ways would cross, in me you will always find the apostolic successor who spreads the Word of faith to everyone with equal love, and calls all creatures with the same love to the eternal sources of life.”) On watermark paper. Rome, 29 December 1927.

                                                                                  6000.-           

217.     Membership card of the Hungarian Christian Jewish Alliance issued to Rőhmer (Román) Kálmán, with signatures, stamping, numbered. Budapest, 12 September 1944. (!) (Many have obtained this certificate during the Holocaust in the hope of exemption, usually without use.)

                                                                                  5000.-

218.     (MANUSCRIPT) Kiss Arnold (chief rabbi of Buda, 1869-1940) Speech on the memorial service of Szabolcsi Miksa. (5 pages, on the back side of the Buda Jewish Community letterhead papers.) Budapest, 1915.

                                                                               12.000.-

219.     (MANUSCRIPT) Vázsonyi Vilmos (Hungarian Jewish politician, Minister of Justice, 1868-1926) hand written memorial speech titled „(In memory of Szabolcsi Miksa)”. (4 pages) Budapest, 1915.

                                                                               12.000.-

220.     Invitation of the Buda Jewish Women’s Association free bread and milk fund to their charity revue. With program, list of organisers. Budapest, 3 January 1914.

                                                                                  3000.-

221.     Budapest, VII. district Jewish Women’s Association invitation to Mother’s Day celebration followed by tea party at the Bethlen-tér. May 1943.

                                                                                  1200.-

222.     Invitation by the Hungarian Zionist Association Mizrahi Department, Miskolc to its „Oneg-Sábbát” programs. Miskolc (1946 ?). With seal of the Community. (2 pieces.)

                                                                                  1500.-

223.     Official abstract from the „Census of Israelites” in the Makó district of June 1848. Issued by the Hungarian Royal National Archive, 2 July 1943. Sealed, signed, with revenue stamps.

                                                                                  1500.-

224.     Free consultation ticket to the Pest Jewish Community Bródy Zsigmond and Adél Children Hospital, it was given to support poor children. Used, numbered, from 1933. 

                                                                                  1500.-

225.     Certificate of the Pest Jewish Community Hospitals letterhead paper for using the patient fund, issued in September 1934. Numbered, with seal and signature.

                                                                                  1200.-

226.     Official letters of Rosenfeld Zsigmond, Hont county medical officer, correspondence with authorities about the cholera and other cases, including compliments from the Home Secretary and others, between 1866-1918. (10 pcs.)

                                                                               12.000.-

227.     (MANUSCRIPT PURIM PLAY) Rosenthal László: Eszterék purimja. (One-act purim play. Typed, unpublished rhymed manuscript draft on 6 pages, with hand written dedication by the author, probably from the time of the premier. Budapest, 22 February 1940.

                                                                                  3600.-

228.     Condolence telegraphs on the decease of Szabolcsi Miksa from Munkácsi Bernát academic, Ignotus (Veigelsberg Hugó) journalist. Vázsonyi Vilmos politician, Minister of Justice, baron dr. Kohner Adolf, Sándor Pál member of the Parliament and dr. Hevesi Simon chief rabbi. Budapest, 1915. (6 pieces.)

                                                                                   6000.-

229.     Business card of baron Weiss Edith (von csepeli) with her own hand written words: „(Grateful thanks for the good  wishes, the same to you, sincerely, Weiss Edith)”

                                                                                  2000.-

230.     Advertisement flier of the Ojság journal. Edited by Nagy Imre. Budapest, 1910s. Pasted on board.  

                                                                                  4000.-

231.     Seiden József WW1 Jewish soldier travel documents. He was Prisoner of War in Russia, later sent to Siberia and Vladivostok, finally with the help of the International Red Cross to Japan. In 1920 fromYokohama, across the Suezi Channel and Triest returned home. Most documents were issued by the Red Cross, from Vladivostok. (6 pieces.)

                                                                               22.000.-

232.     Social Democratic Party membership card issued to Sárdy József, with membership stamps. Date of entrance: 1 January 1945. Together: 3 letters from the VIII. district party organisation and the MDP (Hungarian Workers Party), informing Sárdy József that he is to be disqualified from the Social Democratic Party and his appeals will be rejected. The reason is ”(Right wing attitude, former anti-semite who would still like to see Jews taken to the Danube bank.)” Budapest, 1948. (4 pieces.)

                                                                                  2400.-

 

b., Business life

 

233.     Debt certificate of Bárdos Sámuel, hand written, certified by revenue stamp. Újvár (= Érsekújvár), 1856. With Hebrew signature!

                                                                                  5000.-

234.     Horovitz Mór „Szikvízgyár Részvénytársaság” (Soda botting joint-stock company) share on 100 korona. Hódmezővásárhely, 1920. Numbered, certified by signatures, embossed seal and 5 coupons on the back.

                                                                                  6000.-

235.     Klein Hermann lawyer authorisation on the settlement of inheritance matters. With revenue stamp and seals, signatures. Kassa, 1859. 

                                                                                  5000.-

236.     Kassa (today Kosice, Slovakia) Jewish Credit Federation depositor’s book, issued to Kende Jenő. Together: check used for withdrawing cash from the account. Kassa, 1934. (Set of 2.) Loose stitching, pages.

                                                                                  5000.-

237.     Correspondence of the Miskolc Jewish Community with the local tax authorities and the Budapest Orthodox Jewish Community, about the taxation of the local matzoh factory. Miskolc, 7 and 10 March 1939.. With seals and signatures. (Set of 2)

                                                                                  2600.-

238.     Morgenstern Zsigmond advertisement postcard, recommending his works. With graphics and Hebrew prayer on the left, introduction on the right. (Miskolc, around 1930)

                                                                                  2000.-

239.     Small prints from the Miskolc Jewish life, economic matters: regarding community donations and religious education fees, unused forms and tickets (4 pieces.). Together: subscription receipt of the Miskolc Jewish Life Editorial from 1948, receipt of donation paid to the Community from 1947 and application for meat to the North Hungarian Jewish communities, addressed to the County Council Commerce Department, from 1953. (7 pieces.)    

                                                                                  3600.-

240.     Letter from the National Hungarian Jewish Public Fund Board Presidency to Bettelheim Sámuel, editor of the Pozsony Ungarländische Jüdische Zeitung for financial aid. Signed by Dr. Kohner Adolf president and dr. Mezey Ferenc acting foreman, sealed, on letterhead paper. Budapest, November 1914. Torn edge.

                                                                                  3000.-

 

 

 

 

 

 

c., Community matters, rabbinical letters, Hebrew manuscript

 

241.     Győr Jewish Community registrar extract of marriage record. The performing rabbi was Ranschburg Salamon. The extract is certified by the signature of Róth Emil chief rabbi. With revenue stamp, seal and signature. Győr, 1939 Together: certificate on the change of name. Győr, 1938.

                                                                                   3600.-

242.     Small print of the Hódmezővásárhely Jewish Community and numbered envelope issued to Czukor László. He is proposed with Cohen aliya. 6 September 1931. (2 pieces.)

                                                                                  4000.-

243.     Kaposvári Jewish Community payment receipt print to register tzedaka payments to private persons. Used October 1924. – March 1925. Numbered: 1725-1796.

                                                                                  3000.-

244.     Kassa Jewish Community certificate to Wirkmann Adolf, issued by Eckstein Márk rabbi. Kassa, 22 October 1939. With revenue stamp, seals and signature.

2000.-

245.     Kolozsvár Orthodox Chevra Kadisa payment receipt in Hebrew and Hungarian, numbered, filled, sealed and signed. From 1941.

                                                                                  1200.-

246.     Kőbánya Jewish Community certificate, unable to certify the marriage of named applicants, because of the records were perished. Signed by Kálmán Ödön rabbi, sealed, with revenue stamp. Budapest, 25 February 1940. 

                                                                                 1000.-

247.      Miskolc Chevra Kadisa list of members and record of membership fee payments dec. 31 1945 – dec. 31 1951. Together: personal record book of each members (159).

                                                                              18.000.-

248.     Miskolc Chevra Kadisa and Miskolc Jewish Alliance printed certificate slips. Confirmation of membership fee payment for the fourth quarter of 1944 (!), + lunch ticket from 1945, unused. (Set of 2.)                                           3000.-

249.     Miskolc Community gabella tax receipt book, recorded in a contemporary booklet. From August 1946. until November 1957. Detailed, exact recording with names and dates.. Together: 10 used street lead. Inscribed „Orth. Rabbinate Miskolc”, with kashrut certification.

                                                                                  8000.-

250.     Miskolc Orthodox Jewish Community and Miskolc Chevra Kadisa envelopes. (2 pieces)

                                                                                    800.-

251.     Miskolci Orthodox Jewish Community WWII. martyr memorial special print. Unfilled copy, complete with attached forms. Miskolc, November 1946. (3 leaves.)

                                                                                  1800.-

252.     Nagyvárad Orthodox Jewish Community small poster and notification letter on taxation, to Weisz Sámuel community member. Nagyvárad, 1942. The poster reminds to the importance of paying the community tax. The letter (form) includes the amount of tax payable. Together with the original worn envelope. (3 pieces.)

                                                                                  8000.- 

253.     Pest Chevra Kadisa membership application form with embossed seal, in Hebrew and Hungarian. Budapest, 1947.

4000.-

254.     Pest Jewish Community invitation to thanksgiving worship on the 10th anniversary of electing Horthy Miklós governor. Budapest, 1930.

                                                                                  3000.-

255.     Invitation to the Pest Jewish Community Religious Circle Competition Convert. May 1943. Detailed program on the back of the small print.

                                                                                  1000.-

256.     Steiner Ignác Körmend district chief rabbi signed records and certificates regarding Schwartz József and his family. Gyömöre and Körmend, May 1939. – May 1940. (7 pcs.) 

                                                                                  8000.-

257.     Temesvár Jewish Community birth certificate to Wirkmann Gizella. Temesvár, 1939. Signed by Drechsler Miksa chief rabbi, sealed, with revenue stamp. Registered in Budapest, by the legal and duty department, January 1940.

                                                                                  1800.-

258.     Versegi (today Versec, Romania) Jewish Community negative certificate to dr. Wirkmann of Budapest, in response to request of birth records. With original Hungarian translation. Signed, sealed. 1939. (2 pieces.)

                                                                                  3000.-

259.     Rabbinical consolence letters on the decease of Szabolcsi Miksa (editor of Egyenlőség): dr. Lőwy Ferencz (1869-1944) chief rabbi of Marosvásárhely, dr. Singer Jakab chief rabbi of Temesvár (1867-1940) and dr. Bernstein Béla (1868-1944) chief rabbi of Nyíregyháza. Hand written and signed letters. Letterhead papers. June 1915. (3 pieces.)

                                                                                  9000.-

d., Family and school documents

 

260.      (MANUSCRIPT) Rosenbach Mária: Highlights of the Rosenbach family history. Family history and auto-biography from 1870 until the 1930s, in the area of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and later in Hungary. In contemporary notebook, hand written work with comments and additions. Gilt title on cover.

                                                                                  8000.-

261.     Kulka Katalin family documents and certificates in German and Hungarian, with wax seals, signatures, on official papers from 1880. Budapest. 

                                                                                  6000.-

262.     Mád Orthodox Jewish Community Chief Rabbinate birth letter (certificate) to Deutsch Hanna Debora, signed by Schwartz Nathan chief rabbi. With revenue stamp, numbered and sealed by the rabbinate. H.(eves) Mád, 29 October 1889.

                                                                                  4400.-

263.     Munkács Jewish (Héber) High School program of the 15 March 1939. celebration. In Hungarian and Hebrew, with seal of the high school.

                                                                                  4000.-

264.     Memorial certificate of the National Jewish Teacher Association to Goldklang Lívia III. grade student, thanking her donation. Budapest, 4 June 1940. Seal of the Óbuda Jewish Primary School. 

                                                                                  2000.-

265.     Schwarz Olga of Jewish religion, school certificate from the Balassagyarmat girls commerce course. With war revenue stamps, numbered, sealed and signed. Balassagyarmat, 1915. Slightly faded at foldings.

                                                                                  1200.-

266.     Schweitzer László birth record extract, from the Nógrád County Jewish registrar district. Filled form, sealed and numbered, signed by Pollák Zakariás chief rabbi, Nagyoroszi, 1939. Together: Marriage certificateof Schweitzer László and Netti (Száli), citizens of Romhányi and Nógrád, married in 1882. On letterhead paper of Nógrád Orth. Jewish Community Rabbi- and Registrar Office, sealed and signed by Pollák Zakariás chief rabbi (2 pieces).

                                                                                  3000.-

267.     Budapest Autonomous Orthodox Jewish Community Civil Boy School certificates to Krausz Jenő. From 1922 and 1923. Sealed and signed, numbered. (2 pieces.) 

                                                                                  4000.-

268.     Stark Leopold „Mózes-hitű” (of Moses faith) student German school certificate from the Trencsény Jewish College, 1874 (!). Numbered, with nice seal and signatures.

                                                                                  5000.-

269.     Certificate by Szabados Györgyné, dean of the Miskolc Jewish School to Wurmser Márta teacher, telling that the named teacher had been active in her school between 1938 and 1944. Miskolc, 1946.  (On the back: Szabados György violin artist concert invitation, Miskolc, 1937.)

                                                                                  2000.-

270.     Certificate of Szilberer Simon Jewish technical school student. Szeged, 1928. Sealed and signed.

                                                                                  2000.-

271.     Applications for exemption of school fees addressed to the Pécs Jewish Community. From 1896. (10 pieces.)

                                                                                  5000.-

272.     Alberth Ferencné (born as Goldstein Malvin) roman catholic conversion certificate from 1939. (Issued by the St. Imre Presbytery. 25 April 1941.!) On official paper, with revenue stamp, sealed and signed. 

                                                                                  4000.-

 

 

e., Holocaust

 

273.     Certificate of Barna János, deported from Kiskunlacháza to Jewish forced labor in Yugoslavia, issued by the Anti-Fascist Movement of Deportees from Hungary. In Russian and Hungarian. With signatures, photo and stampings.                                                                                          6000.-

274.     Bokor Pálné liberation certificate documents.  Letter of Liberation by the Hungarian Jewish Board in Dachau, 22 August 1945., Letter of Liberation issued by the German army command in German and English, Türkheim, 5 September 1945., correspondence postcard of the International Red Cross, 3 May 1945., personal certificate issued in Dachau, in English and Russian. With stampings and signatures. 22 August 1945.  (4 pieces.)

                                                                               60.000.-

275.     Correspondence postcards from deportation (Waldsee = Auschwitz!) in German, few lines written with pencil. Sent from Neumann Magda (Buchenwald, 25/25.) to Ipolyi Ernő, not by mail. Under the sender German and Hungarian seal: ”Válasz csak levelezőlapon (30 szóig) németül a Magyarországi Zsidók Szövetsége, Budapest, VII., Síp u. 12. útján.” (Reply by correspondence card (up to 30 words) in German, through the Hungarian Jewish Alliance) VERY RARE!  

                                                                               12.000.-

276.     Altmann László forced laborer correspondence from the labor camp, sent by army mail, 1943. Together: Answer postcard by his wife to the forced labor camp, 1940.

                                                                               10.000.-

277.     Warning letter to Spett Elek county attorney requesting him to send the documents of origin for him and his family within 15 days to the Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun County. Sealed and signed by the civil service office director. Budapest, 5 November 1941. (!) 

                                                                                  1200.-

278.     Certificates of Fischer Béla Jewish deportee from Budapest. Certificate of National Alliance of Deportees from Hungary with photo, which confirms that he had been taken to Bergen–Belsen in 1944 as forced laborer, certificate of the Hungarian Royal 109/19. Worker Command, on labor duty, certificate by the DEGOB (Hungarian Jewish National Deportee Attending Board), confirming that he was taken from Bergen–Belsen to Teresienstadt, where he was later liberated. Certificate from 1945 by the Sochnut (Jewish Agency) on issuing records of his return with Fischer Béla, July 1945., other certificates and documents. (Set of 10.) May-August 1945. In German, Hungarian, Polish and Russian.

                                                                               30.000.- 

279.     Lőw Pál certificate of residence by the Ózd town crerk. With revenue stamp, sealed and signed. 13 April 1943. 

                                                                                  3000.-

280.     Certificate by the Hungarian Jewish Alliance to Porjesz Sándor which entitled him to move freely within the ghetto area, as food supply assistant. Budapest, 4 december 1944. (!), letterhead paper, signed and sealed.

                                                                                  8000.-

281.     Mád town certificate to Fülöp Szerén returned deportee, regarding accommodation. Mád, 1947. Registration number, revenue stamp, signatures and stampings.

                                                                                  1800.-

282.     Liberation letters of Müncz Manó Emánuel (born in Törökszentmiklós, citizen of Budapest.), former prisoner of the Mauthausen and Günskirchen concentration camps. With photo, signature and stampings, issued 4 May and 11 August 1945. German and English, another in German and Hungarian. Certified by the Alpenjäger camp and the Federal Army seals. RARE! (Set of 2.)

                                                                               28.000.-

283.     Registration application form about Jewish religion addressed to the mayor, according to the 1939. IV. tc. 4§. law article. Unused copy. Miskolc, 1939.

                                                                                  4000.-

284.     Letter of Ravasz Illés lawyer from Budapest to Bujdosó Lajos lawyer in Miskolc, requesting help in a case at the local chamber of commerce, 6 March 1944.

                                                                                  1800.-

285.     Important lot of personal documents issued to Révész István artist. Certificates, permissions and CV. Includes a certificate by the Swedish Red Cross Childcare Department which testifies that he is the leader of „Jó Pásztor” orphanage under their protection, and as an employee of the Red Cross enjoys full protection. Stamped, signed. Budapest, 16 November 1944.

Together: Rabinovszky Máriusz: Az új festészet története (book on the history of art, with war damage!), personally dedicated by the author to Révész Sándor.

                                                                               20.000.-

286.     Certificate of the curtail of Schwimmer Béla from his army ranks. It commands that he can not wear his titles, rank, uniform, not even with the yellow strip. Monor, 16 February 1943. (!). On official form, signed and stamped. 

                                                                                  4000.-

287.     Repeated curfew issued to Schwimmer József, under Budapest, Aréna street, from the Hungarian Royal I. Defense Commanding Office. Official form, stamped and signed. Budapest, October 1944. (!)

                                                                                  3000.- 

288.     Swiss protection letter issued to Schweitzer Pál, from the Swiss Embassy Immigration Department, stamped and numbered, in German and Hungarian. Budapest, 23 October 1944. (!). 

                                                                               12.000.-

289.     Official certificate with photo for Spiegel Ferenc, issued by the X. district council to testify that he is working on public duty, therefore stands under the protection of the Russian Supreme Commanding office. Budapest, dated on the 17 January 1945. In Russian and Hungarian. Sealed and signed by the district council secretary, Szűcs Sándor.

                                                                                  6000.-

290.     Protection letter by the Royal Embassy of Sweden (Schutz-Pass) issued to Herzog Sándorné from Budapest, 29 September 1944. (!). In the lower left corner signed by Danielsson ambassador. With photo and seal. 33,5x21 cm.

                                                                               32.000.-

291.     Permission for leave issued to Vogel István foot-soldier, with additional copy. Stamped by the Hungarian Royal 208/20 Camp Jewish Worker Company Command Office, signed by the commander. Budakalász, 24 Sept. 1940.