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Postwar Displaced Persons Materials Auction Set
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JESSE BERNSTEIN | JE STAFF
A KETUBAH, scribbled on a
pitifully dirty piece of paper but
recording a union nonetheless.

Yiddish newspapers produced
for and in displaced persons
camps the size of small farms.

Zionist material published just
a few years before the founda-
tion of the genuine article.

The anonymous collector
who put together the She’arit
Haple’atah Archive, which will
be auctioned off in its entirety
on Jan. 31, must have been “very
passionate” about the immedi-
ate postwar and post-Holocaust
era of European Jewish life to
have curated such a collection,
said Darren Winston, head of
books, maps and manuscripts at
Freeman’s, an auction house.

“What I personally find fas-
cinating,” said Winston, “and I
think what Freeman’s finds fas-
cinating, is that someone chose
to put it together.”
Studying the archive, said
David Bloom, a senior cataloguer
who has been at Freeman’s since
1983, “was sort of overwhelm-
ingly powerful.” “The material
is very wide ranging, so it really
gives you a feel for Jewish life
in post-Holocaust, postwar
Europe,” he said.

The She’arit Haple’atah
A drawing from the collection
Photo provided
Archive (Hebrew for “the sur-
viving remnant”) consists of the
ephemera created by and pro-
vided to the displaced Jews of
Europe between 1945 and 1949:
political pamphlets, poetry, sid-
durim and more, produced in
the often-dire circumstances of
the DP camps. Because it was
made as inexpensively as pos-
sible, much of it was left behind
when the camps themselves
were closed. The last camp was
open until 1957.

“It was never meant to
See Holocaust, Page 31
When an archive that represents a little known aspect of the period after the
Holocaust becomes available, you know there’s going to be strong interest in it.”
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