13th Dec, 2019 10:30 GMT/BST
Auschwitz Concentration Camp Orchestra Interest - a Collection of Sixty Two Black and White Snapshot Photographs of the Kubu Orchestra, the members of which were Cuban Jewish inmates. The photographs show them performing on stage and also show interior scenes, three of the smaller examples have the Auschwitz rubber stamp to the reverse, three have pencil captions which translate as "Table set for our Jewish friends in the Kubu Band", "Kubu in Auschwitz" and "Lanky Jakob, my Favourite Jew", mainly printed on war time Agfa postcard paper. The images are not distressing. Sold together with a letter of thanks from David Irving, Second World War historian and Holocaust denier, to whom the photographs were lent
Footnote:- Purchased by the vendor from a relative of an SS officer
Sold for £420
Estimated at £200 - £300
Auction: Militaria & Ethnographica, 13th Dec, 2019
Militaria & Ethnographica
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