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Six photographs of Jewish Holocaust survivors, at the end of the war - Germany, 1945.

Opening price: $250

Commission: 22%

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Six photographs of Jewish death camp survivors at the end of World War II. Germany, 1945. Four of them in large format 25x20 cm.

An elderly woman who survived the Bergen belsen Concentration Camp - photographed by the L.A.P.I photography agency. This photograph later appeared in many books dealing with the period, and was also chosen to be used as the cover of many books documenting the horrors of the Holocaust.

Women and children survivors of the Bergen belsen Concentration Camp are covered with blankets in a temporary hospital that was established in the camp at the end of the war.

A representative of the Joint makes a speech in the Dachau camp in front of a memorial monument after the war with ex-prisoners next to him still in the prisoner's clothes. 9x14 cm.

Two photographs of an elderly ex-prisoner in a Joint hospital alongside a nurse and the Joint representative treating him. On the back of each of the photographs is affixed a page with stencil printing (English), with extensive detail about the number of survivors who left Germany on their way to Eretz Israel and the situation regarding liberated survivors who were still found at the time on German soil in the displaced persons camps established by the Joint.

A photograph of a survivor on his way to the Land of Israel. The above page was also attached to this photograph in his back.

As mentioned, five photographs average size of 20x25 cm. One photograph 9x14 cm. general condition good.

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65. Six photographs of Jewish Holocaust survivors, at the end of the war - Germany, 1945.