Large Collection of Memoirs, Prints, Photographs and Books from the Archives of Holocaust Survivor Moshe Lipman

Large Collection of Memoirs, Prints, Photographs and Books from the Archives of Holocaust Survivor Moshe Lipman

Moshe Lipman was born in 1922 in Konin, Poland. Orphaned of his father at a young age, he wandered among the towns of Eastern Europe. When the war started, he stayed with a group of orphans in Pietrkov. The group immediately boarded a train in the direction of Warsaw, but the Germans bombed the rear cars, and the survivors in the front cars had to walk to Warsaw by foot. In May 1943 he was captured by the Nazis and sent to the Majdanek extermination camp. He was held there for about a month and a half and then sent to Birkenau. Just before their liberation from the Nazis, the camp inmates were cruelly sent to central Germany, but were liberated on the way by partisans. In 1946 he immigrated to Israel and fought in the War of Independence.

He discovered his talent for painting as a child, before the outbreak of the war. When he immigrated to Israel and was absorbed in Kibbutz Tel Yitzhak, he was instructed to paint and decorate the walls of the kibbutz. Much of his talent was invested in perpetuating the lost memories of childhood.

The collection contains:

* [5] handwritten notebooks - memoirs of the Holocaust.

* [3] boxes that together contain about [150] pictures.

* [6] framed prints. Two of them by Lipman and one by Yitzhak Belfer.

* [4] books and booklets by Holocaust survivor Yitzhak Belfer, two of which bear author's dedications to Lipman.

And more.

Including the booklet  Dapim MeChayyai - memoirs by Moshe Lipman. Private publication - not found in the National Library.

Total of hundreds of paper items + [6] framed prints.

Overall fine condition. Tears and wear in several leaves.