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The Cobbs Auctioneers
Documenting the Holocaust and WWII (Lifetime collection of David Cheney)
March 13th 2010 at 11AM,
at Historic Noone Falls Mill, 50 Jaffrey Road,  Peterborough NH
 

 

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5        4 Broadsides/"Bekanntmachung" from Occupied Poland and pre war postcards.  A) 19" by 25" very fragile pink (faded) SS poster listing 25 names of "Criminals" who acted against the General Government.  The first three individuals had already been executed when this notice was printed Feb 26th 1944, Krakau.  Has been stored folded.  B) Large, green SS poster from Krakau, Poland stating 100 Polish individuals were condemned to death because of bomb attacks on trains.  Printed in German and Polish February 1944. Has been stored folded.  C) Small 8" by 10” white with black printing SS poster declaring that 10 Poles were shot in reprisal for the killing of a Police Lieutenant Hann on 22 May 1944.  Translation accompanies. In excellent condition. D) Approximately 12" by 18" order "Anordnung des Gouverneurs des Distrikts Radom" forbidding beggars to go house to house due to the danger of typhus with severe penalties for anyone violating the order.  Rare poster from the General Government in Poland. E) 8 Polish photo/postcards (3.5" by 5.5" in black and white and color with 3 duplicates) Writing is all in Yiddish.  Subjects include religious class group photos, taking a child to meet a Rabbi, elderly Rabbi, enjoyable home life with radio and cars. All Pre Holocaust cards.  Estimate $500 to 750

40      German occupied documents and posters and German map of Litzmannstadt.  6 Pieces.  Includes A) Notice that warns Polish citizens to obey German occupation troops and refrain from sabotage, strikes and resistance.  In German and Polish. 16" x23", red, white and black with eagle and swastika.   Rare occupation poster and fragile. B) Bekanntmachung (Public Notice) - (Turn In Firearms) Informs Ukrainian civilian population to turn in all firearms and weapons under the penalty of death.  Printed in German, Ukrainian and Russian.  Large, black, eagle & swastika at top of poster. 16.25" x11.5", brown with black printing. Stored and remains folded C)  In Ukrainian language only.  Supposedly regulations for wear of yellow Jewish star, etc.  8.25" x11.5", light brown with black printing.  Needs translation. Stored and remains folded. D) Blue and white public notice document from the Hague with instructions for Jews to register with the police that comes with a second document (1 page Jewish registration form filled out by a Jacob David Perlberg).  Dated 6 March 1941.  Dutch language.  Very rare. Both the notice and form are titled "Anmeldingsformulier voor een persoon" E) Bekanntmachung that warns Polish town officials that they will answer with their lives for resistance activity in their areas.  In German and Polish. Rare occupation poster and fragile.12"x 18", red, white and black with eagle & swastika. Stored and remains folded F) "Plan von Litzmannstadt" German map of Litzmannstadt (Lodz, Poland).  Shows ghetto area.  Germans renamed all streets in the city and assigned letters and numbers to the ghetto area.  27" by 37".   Estimate $700 to $1000  
43      Der Stürmer publication lot.  Includes: A) 14 issues of Julius Streicher's Der Stürmer news papers in excellent to mint condition.  Issue dates:  Mar. 1936, July 1936, Sept. 1936, Mar. 1940,  26 Nov. 1942, 10 Dec. 1942,  7 Jan. 1943,  25 Mar. 1943,  6 May 1943, 13 May, 1943,  22 July 1943,  18 Nov. 1943,  23 Dec. 1943,  11 Jan. 1945.   B) Wooden Holder For Der Stürmer Newspaper 24" x 1” red painted wood with steel spring to hold newspaper.  "Antisemitisches Wochenblatt Der Sturmer" (Weekly edition of the anti-Semitic Der Sturmer) and swastika in white written over read paint.  Probably used by street vendors to display the latest edition.  C) A Subscription form (Bestellschein) for Der Stürmer in excellent to mint condition  D) Three similar Advertising posters/flyers for Der Stürmer in Very good condition.  Estimate  $800 to $1000
73      2 Bekanntmachung (Notices) for Occupied Poland. A) Typed notice/broadside draft to mayors & public officials in the Dabrowa area warning against resistance activity.  11.5" x 16.5" dated  26 June 1944. B) Public Notice of Executions by Commander of The Security Police & SD for the District of Warsaw (Poland) dated 21 Mar. 1944.  9" by 13" white with black printing SS poster  declaring that 140 Poles will be publicly executed for crimes against Germans.  Has been stored folded. Estimate $400 to $500
99      Recruiting poster for the SS-Wallonie Division.  Rare Waffen-SS poster for recruiting Belgians into the Wallonie Division.  Battle scene in color with the French language message "Tu defends la Belgique .. en luttant au front de l'est!.. Viens a la SS Division Blindee - Wallonie-"  (You defend Belgium while fighting on the eastern front, come with  (join) the Wallonie SS Division) .  32" x 49". Professionally framed with acid free matting and UV resistant lexan. Condition is good, poster had been folded prior to framing and fold marks are visible.   Estimate $1000 to $2000.
100    Nazi propaganda poster for Labor Day 1934.  "Heraus Zum 1. Mai" with Labor Day badge  on red, white, brown.  55" x 37".  Professionally framed with acid free matting and UV resistant lexan.  In excellent condition.  Estimate $500 to $1000
140    3 German broadsides / Public Notices.  Includes A) 100,000 Kronen Belohnung  (Reward Poster) 18"x12".  Fragile white poster printed the day after the assassination attack on Reinhard Heydrich in Prague, Czechoslovakia.  Offers a 100,000 Kronen reward for info on a Sgt. Valcik..the lookout on the assassination team. In German and Czech. B) Bekanntmachung.  (Public Notice of Executions), 27"x20"  Very fragile orange/ pink  SS poster from Krakau, Poland listing 23 names of Polish individuals condemned to death.  C)"Erlass des Reichsprotektors in Böhmen und Mähren......." 37"x25".  Very fragile orange/ pink (faded)  SS poster from Prague, Czechoslovakia.  Warns of a "State of Emergency" due to enemy resistance activities in the Protectorate of Bohemia & Moravia.  Poster outlines restrictions for the population.   Estimate $500 to $700

141    Nazi Bekanntmachung (Public Notice of Executions).  From Der Höhere SS-und Polizeiführer ges. Rösener......Cilli  (Celje), Slovenia dated June 23rd 1942.  25"x37" very fragile pink (faded) SS poster listing about 60 names of "Communist bandits" executed for the death of a police official, soldiers and civilians.  Also 6 women were shot for killing a women in front of her child. Estimate $500 to $700


 


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