Dec 13, 2011 - Sale 2265

Sale 2265 - Lot 113

Price Realized: $ 2,280
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
(JUDAICA)
Group of 7 photographs by Walter Zadek of German-Jewish refugees on board the ship Parita as it arrived in Palestine. Ferrotyped silver prints, 5x7 inches (12.7x17.8 cm.), with Zadek's Hebrew and English hand stamps on verso; a few with handwritten numeric notations. 1939
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On August 22, 1939 the Betar (Revisionist) ship Parita, with 856 passengers, successfully disembarked in Palestine. Before the start of World War II, there were approximately 21,000 European Jews who fled the Nazis.