Auction 19 Eretz Israel, anti-Semitism, Holocaust, postcards and photographs, Travel books, Avantgarde, Judaica, Rabbinical Letters
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Feb 15, 2023
Avraham Ferrara 1, Jerusalem, Israel

The auction will take place on Wednesday, February 15, 2023, at 19:00 (Israel time).

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Early certificates and documents of a Jewish butcher and veterinarian in Berlin. Early of the 20th century

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Early certificates and documents of a Jewish butcher and veterinarian in Berlin. Early of the 20th century


A collection of about 22 certificates and early documents of the Jewish butcher, veterinarian and chief responsible for the urban meat system in Berlin - Bernhard Kirsch. Berlin, Early of the 20th century, until the 30s of the 20th century.


Bernhard Kirsch was born on May 16, 1895 in Kaldau to a well-known horse dealer father, and in his youth moved to Berlin. In the summer of 1913 he began studying veterinary medicine and soon became an expert in the field. During World War I, he worked in the military veterinary service until he was injured in 1918. After the war in Berlin, he was a municipal supervisor of the Jewish slaughterhouse, and a valued expert of the urban meat system in the city until the mid-1930s. He was also the city veterinarian, a respected and well-known expert in the field of animals and meat. Bernhard immigrated to Eretz Israel in the mid-1930s with the rise of the Nazi Party, and continued in his position in Eretz Israel.


In the folder before us are 22 official certificates and early documents dealing with his specialization in the field in his early years. Among the documents that appear: certificates of honor confirming his position and detailing his various specialties in the field of veterinary surgery, the veterinary doctor, and the person responsible for the slaughter even during the First World War, and after that, an official letter of appointment to engage in his position during the First World War. Kirsch's specialization certificates with the signature of the mayor of Berlin in 1931 as well as a certificate signed by the mayor of Berlin from 1932. Certificate of completion of his studies with honors from the Berlin Veterinary School 1916, a certificate of great honors from the Berlin Veterinary School after he studied under Prof. Max Kramer - Berlin November 24, 1923, Official letters of recommendation for Dr. Kirsch detailing his various specialties, a certificate he received at a private school where he completed his studies about a year before leaving Germany in 1933, a certificate of specialization in the treatment of animal diseases that he received upon graduation from the Royal Veterinary College in Berlin in 1924, a Hebrew license On behalf of the Department of Agriculture and Forestry in Palestine which Bernhard received in 1934 after immigrating to Eretz Israel, and other certificates.


About 22 documents and certificates, data in an original folder from the 1930s. General condition good - very good.


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