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Lot #    22688
Auction End Date    1/20/2009 11:31:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Megillat Hantsaha
Title (Hebrew)    מגלת הנתחה
Author    [Holocaust]
City    Israel
Publisher    Irgun Yotse'e Chelm veha-sevivah be Yisrael
Publication Date    1960
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Scroll 257:2951 cm. (consisting of 13 pages glued together), light age staining.
          
Detailed
Description		    An organization entitled Irgun Yotse'e Chelm veha-sevivah be-Yisrael (an organization of the survivors of Chelm and its surroundings in Israel) issued a scroll of commemoration to those who had perished during the Holocaust.

The scroll begins saying on Monday... 5720...we have gathered on Har Tsiyon in Jerusalem and erected a monument as a memorial to those from the city of Chelm and its surroundings who were gathered together by the Nazis and their helpers on the 7th say of Sivan, 5702 (1942) and were buried on foreign soil in a mas grave...and the monument and this scroll should be a sign of shame ...to the impure murderers who shed innocent blood. A listing of names then follows, beginning with the Rabbi of the town, followed by 4 grand Rabbis and them followed by various public officials and them buy an alphabetical listing of residents of the town and the surrounding area.
          
Paragraph 2    On Sept. 14, 1939 the Soviet Army occupied Chelm, but withdrew two weeks later in accordance with the Soviet-German agreement. At least several hundred young Jews also left the town during the Soviet army's withdrawal. The German army took over the city on Oct. 7, 1939, and immediately initiated a series of pogroms in which scores of Jews lost their lives. On December 1, 1,800 Jewish men between the ages of 15 and 60 were driven in a death march to the Soviet-held town of Sokal. En route 1,400 of the men were shot, and the 400 survivors were allowed to enter Sokal. The Jews in Chelm were forced to live in restricted quarters, but a closed ghetto was not established there. In May 1941 about 2,000 Jews from Slovakia were deported to Chelm. The first mass deportation from Chelm took place on May 21–23, 1942, at which time 4,300 Jews (including all the deportees from Slovakia) were sent to the Sobibor death camp. On November 6, the entire Jewish population was dispatched in a final Aktion to Sobibor for extermination. Only a handful of workers were left in the town's prison; of these 15 survived and were liberated with the town on July 22, 1944. The Germans had destroyed all Jewish public buildings, among them the 700-year-old synagogue. Most Jews who left for the Soviet Union in 1939 joined the Soviet or Polish armies.
          
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Israel:    Checked
  
Subject
Other:    Holocaust
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica