Betar Commissionership in Czechoslovakia - Collection of Items and Letters, 1940s

Betar Commissionership in Czechoslovakia - Collection of Items and Letters, 1940s
66 letters, photographs and documents, recording the operations of Betar commissionership in Czechoslovakia during the holocaust. Bratislava and other locations, 1940-1949 (most of them from the years 1941-1942). German, Hungarian and some Slovakian.
1-53. Handwritten and typewritten letters sent to the head of the commissionership and commander of the ship "Pentcho", Yehoshua Halevi Zitron. The letters were sent by movement members in Bratislava to detention camps in Rhodes and Italy, where to the passengers of "Pentcho" were deported after the ship sunk. Among other things, mentioned in the letter is the operation of the remaining Betar members in Bratislava. Among the writers are: Ferdinand Weidemann, secretary of the commissionership; Dr. Dezo Wohlstein, commander of Betar branch in Slovakia; Ervin Salamon, commander of Bratislava chamber; Walter Vogel, commissionership officer; and others. Censorship ink-stamps appear on some letters. In several letters lines were deleted with black ink, and from one letter two passages were cut out (probably according to censor's instructions). German and Hungarian.
54. Postcard from 1941, sent from Bratislava to detention camp in Rhodes, to Yehoshua Halevi Zitron, from the Betar activist Friedrich Weiss.
55-63. Nine photographs, including one of Betar members in a province in west Slovakia, from 1940; a postcard with a photograph of a class of pupils in Bratislava (mailed in 1944); and personal and family photographs.
64-66. Three items in the name of Ervin Salamon: a Czech passport issued in 1949; a "všeobecná občianska legitimácia" (general civil card) issued in 1946; student card issued by the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, for the school year 1947/48.
Enclosed: the books "Habayta…!" by Yehoshua Halevi [Zitron]. Published by committee of "Pentcho" passengers in Israel, [Tel-Aviv, 1950]; "Toldot Betar Czechoslovakia" by Yehoshua Halevi (Zitron), published by Betar Ch.S.R. members in Israel, Tel-Aviv, 1961 (Hebrew).
Size and condition vary. Overall good condition.