The design of a Belzer Rebbe sent to a Nazi

Recently, a German postcard was suggested with a sketch of a Belzer Rebbe behest goodbye to his supporters during a time of a Holocaust.

The postcard, photographed by a German photographer in Marienbad, was sent to a infantryman in a Nazi German army after a conflict of World War II. The postcard will be accessible for sale this month during a Kedem auction residence in Jerusalem.

On a behind of a postcard, there is a brief typewritten content with a handwritten signature. “Allow me to send we comfortable greetings from Marienbad …”

The postcard bears a Nazi postmark from Marienbad that incorporates dual swastikas and a stamp of a German Reich. The postcard is addressed to Hauptmann Grube, a infantryman in a Nazi German army, and was sent to a Air Force domicile – Fliegerhorstkommandantur – in a tumble of 1939.

The print was taken by Hans Lampalzer, a German photographer in Marienbad who frequently photographed rabbis and hasidic Rebbes who lived in or visited his town. The picture of a Belzer Rebbe during a railway hire in Marienbad became famous by a series of postcards with cinema taken by Lampalzer. The postcard – that is an intensely singular find – shows dual women in a second window of a sight car, substantially kin of a Rebbe.

In a 1930s, some of Lampalzer’s photographs were published in a anti-Semitic Der Stürmer, a weekly German journal published by Julius Streicher. The newspaper, founded in 1923, was used as a forum for unwholesome anti-Semitic attacks, along with promotion articles. It enclosed many cartoons and photographs that focused especially on stereotypical illustration of Jews. Some of a photographs published in a journal were of Jewish leaders, rabbis and hasidic Rebbes.

The Rebbe, Rabbi Aharon Rokeach of Belz, (1880 – 1957) was one of a biggest Rebbes and Jewish leaders in Europe before a Holocaust. He was coined “Aharon a Holy One” given he was famous for his good piety and his grind in Torah and hasidism. He was intensely ascetic – eating really small and hardly sleeping. Thousands of Jews flocked to his home for blessings, recommendation and assistance.

In 1926, he was crowned as a Rebbe of Belz Hasidism and became one of a heading leaders of haredi Judaism in Eastern Europe. During a Holocaust, he was persecuted by a Nazis who followed him as one of a leaders of universe Judaism. His hasidim hid him and smuggled him from poor to ghetto, until he was miraculously smuggled into Budapest, Hungary. He stayed there for a brief duration of time and eventually was smuggled into Israel on a exhausting tour by Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey and Syria. He arrived in Israel alone – bereft of his whole family. His wife, children and grandchildren were all killed by a Nazis.

Upon his attainment in Israel, a Rebbe staid in Tel Aviv, where he was active in enlivening refugees and Holocaust survivors. He and his brother, a Bilogoria Rebbe, determined a Belz Hasidic institutions in Israel and abroad – in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Bnei Brak and other cities.