HOL 072
September 1942 issue of Turkish satirical journal, Karikatur. Cover shows a jew, with the caption: “The profiteer – They said a (fierce) fight was about to begin, and I was scared…..Thank God it was just (empty talk)! A Turkish politician is firing artillery shells at the profiteer. The larger shell reads “severe punishment”. The small one reads “closure”.
Price: $120.00
HOL 071
WW1 postcard of Italy being torn between intervention and neutrality, with the jew favoring neutrality.
Price: $70.00
HOL 070
Carnet de Cheques (checkbook) par Caran D’Ache. Anti-semitic literature using cheques as the main theme. Complete.
Price: $400.00
HOL 069
Five French and German anti-semitic postcards issued during World War 1.
Price: $400.00
HOL 068
Rare Italian Social Republica pamphlet titled Il Corriere Aereo. Rabidly anti-semitic. The cartoon translates as: Israel does business. It's a beautiful specimen, Mister: the Boys procured it directly from Palermo Cathedral, without asking for many permits...
Price: $120.00
HOL 067
Rare collection of 29 short letters from Germans living in the Theresienstadt ghetto/camp to one Grete Breuer who lived at Seitenstelteng 4, Vienna. A total of 16 different people are writing. The postcards are officially imprinted from Theresienstadt and contain the stamp of the German censor who reviewed the correspondence. The surnames of the inmates include Weinstein, Wottiz, Kolmin, Kokesch, Roubicek, Spitzer, Grunfeld, Breuer, Ermes, Bolum, Holser, Weil, Sharer, and more. Some interesting things stand out. For instance, the inmates who sent more than one letter, showed different addresses, indicating that they were moved within the ghetto. Some are stamped Reply only to postcards in German. Others are stamped Answer only to the Reich Association of Jews in Germany (which was set up to help convince German jews to emigrate to Theresienstadt). Price: $15000.00
NOTE: Grete Breuer (born Margarethe Breuer) was the daughter of the famous Viennese physician Dr. Josef Breuer, who played a foundational role in the development of psychoanalysis alongside Sigmund Freud. Grete married Dr. Arthur Schiff in 1899. Her life and lineage are tied to several notable aspects of Viennese history and genealogy: Through her father, Grete belonged to the prominent Jewish-Austrian Breuer family. Her grandfather was the respected physician Josef Breuer, whose breakthrough work with his patient "Anna O." heavily influenced the birth of psychoanalysis. Grete's husband, Dr. Arthur Schiff, was born in Vienna in 1871 and passed away there in 1942. After his death, Grete was left isolated and forced out of her family home. Tragically, during the Holocaust, Grete was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp, where she died in 1942. Grete and Arthur had three children: Erich (later Eric), Elisabeth ( Lily), and a son who became an academic. Erich became a notable economics scholar, and Elisabeth was a highly educated woman who emigrated to the UK and then the US.
The location written on the letters is Seitenstettengasse 4, 1010 Vienna (often abbreviated as Seitenstetten 4 on wartime mail). This specific building was a central hub for the heavily persecuted Jewish community in Vienna under Nazi rule. This address is the famous location of the Stadttempel, Vienna's main synagogue. Because it was flanked by residential buildings, the Nazis did not burn it down during the November Pogrom (Kristallnacht) out of fear that the entire block would burn. Consequently, the Gestapo forced the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde (the Vienna Jewish Community administration) to operate out of this complex. Why was she registered there? During the war, as Viennese Jews were systematically stripped of their apartments, many were funneled into "collective apartments" (Sammelwohnungen) or registered directly through the central Jewish administration hub at Seitenstettengasse 4 to handle their final forced deportations.
Grete Schiff was forced to use or reside at this address up until the summer of 1942. According to Austrian Holocaust databases, she was officially deported from Vienna on August 27, 1942, on Transport IV/8 to the Theresienstadt Ghetto. She survived only a few weeks in the camp. Official Austrian Holocaust and university records confirm that Grete Schiff died in Theresienstadt on September 9, 1942. The letters were likely written by friends, family, or fellow Vienna deportees who had been sent to the ghetto earlier in 1941 or early 1942, before she herself was sent there. . Letters addressed to her in 1944 indicate one of two historical scenarios: 1) Complete Isolation and Deception: The most common reason for 1944 mail is that the sender (imprisoned in the Theresienstadt Ghetto) was entirely unaware that Grete had already passed away. The Nazi camp administration routinely suppressed information about deaths. Prisoners were forced or permitted to send brief postcards to the outside world to project a false image of "normal life" in the camp. Senders often wrote to old contacts back home, hoping they were still there to receive the mail. 2) The "Return to Sender" or Redirection Loop: Because Seitenstettengasse 4 was the forced headquarters of the remaining Jewish community administration in Vienna, mail sent from the camps to Vienna was routed through that office. If letters arrived there in 1944, the staff at the address would have known she was long gone, and these letters were likely intercepted, collected, or could never be delivered. Some letters are stamped “Reply only to postcards in German” (which was was purely for the benefit of the Nazi censors so mail written in other languages, such as Czech or Yiddish, was routinely intercepted and destroyed). Others are stamped “Answer only to the Reich Association of Jews in Germany” Ghetto prisoners were forbidden from sending regular mail directly to standard civilian mailboxes. Instead, the SS transported these cards in batches to Berlin. There, they were stamped and funneled through the Reich Association headquarters (located at Iranische Straße 2 or Kantstraße 158 in Berlin). Anyone wishing to reply to a prisoner could not mail it back directly to Theresienstadt. They were legally forced to send their postcard back to the Reich Association office in Berlin. The Association collected the replies, screened them, and handed them back to the SS to transport into the camp.
The presence of these stamps explains how letters kept arriving for Grete Schiff at Seitenstettengasse 4 in 1944, even though she died in 1942. The Nazi regime used this convoluted postal network to generate a veneer of normalization. By forcing inmates to write postcards back to family or older community hubs—and requiring the replies to go through a heavily monitored Nazi-controlled channel—they successfully deceived families, international observers, and the prisoners themselves into believing their loved ones were still alive and accessible.
The family names of those writing include:
HOL 066
Photo postcard of the crematorium at Buchenwald. B
Price: $50.00
HOL 060
Jewish postcard for the Cohen family. B
Price: $120.00
HOL 059
3 anti-semitic postcards. B
Price: $200.00
HOL 057
Two 1936 issues of Akbaba, with antisemitic themes on the covers. One reads: “From the newspapers: There is no rest for the Jews in Palestine”. The other reads: “Salamon b... Arabs were throwing balls. Why don't our people throw it?..No, Mishonaci, is it not the custom of the Jews to throw a ball?”. B
Price: $200.00