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Lot 99:
1. Issue no. 24 from the third year of the new series, the last issue of the Het Joodsche Weekblad published in Amsterdam. September 17, 1943. 4 pp., 27 x 35 cm.
The weekly newspaper Het Joodsche Weekblad began to appear in Amsterdam in 1940 and was edited by A.J. Herzberg. Beginning on October 26, 1941, the Nazi government banned the publication of all Jewish newspapers and periodicals, with the exception of this paper. The paper contained news and articles relating to religion and society, and many advertisements. It was subject to intense Nazi censorship, and used as a propaganda tool to publicize the anti-Jewish laws and decrees. Initially, the paper had eight pages, later decreased to 6 pages, and later to only 4 pages.
2. Special edition of the Het Joodsche Weekblad, from August 7, 1942. Amsterdam. 1 p., 27 x 35 cm.
Extra Editie, part of issue 17a of the second year of the new series. Printed in this special edition are three new edicts against the Jews:
a. All Jews who don’t sign up immediately for work in Germany will be a rrested and deported to the Mauthausen concentration camp. It will not be enforced on those Jews who come forward and announce their willingness to work no later than Sunday, August 9th, 1942, by 5:00 pm.
b. All Jews who don’t wear the yellow Star of David will be banished to the Mauthausen concentration camp.
c. Any Jew who changes his place of residence without permission from the authorities, even temporarily, will be banished to the Mauthausen concentration camp.
Here is a chilling testimony to the the Amsterdam version of the ‘Final Solution to the Jewish Problem.’
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