Dov Dahari - Children in the Ghettos - a copy signed by Yitzhak Greenbaum

Dov Dahari - Children in the Ghettos - a copy signed by Yitzhak Greenbaum

Dov Dahari - Children in the Ghettos - 12 paintings depicting the suffering of the ghetto children, by the painter Dov Dahari Skoczynski described in three languages. Published by the Warsaw Expatriates in Israel, Tel Aviv 1965. Introduction (in a four-page booklet in three languages), by Yitzhak Greenbaum - Special edition with Greenbaum's hand signature, and the prospectus page of the Warsaw Expatriates in Israel.

Paintings of scenes of persecution, survival, famine, and the war of existence of the ghetto children during the Holocaust. Dahari, who grew up in Warsaw in his youth, a student of the great artists Scotsils, Kozik, and Kowalewski, once stated that his favorite subject in art is the drawing of children.

Yitzhak Greenbaum [1879-1970] a Zionist leader, one of the leaders of the Zionist movement of Polish Jews between the two world wars and Israel's first Minister of the Interior. Even before the outbreak of the Holocaust, Greenbaum was known for his belligerent stances against anti-Semitism and for the rights of minorities in Poland. In 1942, when news of the mass extermination reached Palestine, he was elected to head the Jewish Agency's Rescue Committee, a 12-member body from the various parties, designed to work to save European Jews from extermination. Prior to the establishment of the State of Israel, Greenbaum was one of the 13 members of the People's Administration and the signatories of the Declaration of Independence. (On the day of the declaration of the state, he was among the besieged in Jerusalem, and therefore did not participate in the ceremony, but he added his signature to the Declaration at a later date). All his days he was engaged in commemorating the memory of the Holocaust for future generations.

[12] Tables, [4] Introduction Page. [1] Prospectus page of the Warsaw Expatriates Organization in Israel. An original illustrated cardboard folder that includes a title page in Hebrew and English. Very good condition.