Zsidók Által Lakható Épületek (General Habitable Buildings for Jews)
Budapest: Dr. Jozsef Szentmiklosi, 16th of June, 1944. First edition. Loose leaf. Double Elephant Folio (37 x 25" folded three times). Original blue green poster with black lettering. Issued by the Mayor of Budapest with Budapest code of arms at top. Official publication of the Mayor of Budapest regarding the designation of houses for the Jewish population of the city on the Pest side during the Holocaust.
After the invasion of Hungary by the German army in 1944 the strategy to prepare the deportation of the Jewish population of Budapest shaped up to be significantly different then in other parts of the German Reich. Instead of the rigorous move to relocate the Jews into isolated Ghettos, a more subtle plan was devised for Budapest that had some resemblance of normalcy as opposed to the ghettoization that took place in the Hungarian countryside.
The German and the collaborating Hungarian authorities devised a strategy for Budapest which was unique in the history of the Holocaust. Instead of the common ghettoization they assigned so-called yellow-star houses as designated compulsory places of residence for the Jews which were centralized in the urban district of Theresa Town (district vi), just northwest of Elisabeth Town, (district vii), the traditional and historic Jewish quarter of Pest. The Dohány Street Synagogue, the largest functioning synagogue in Europe, was located in the vi. district.
This poster is the public announcement of the Mayoral order of the relocation of the Jews on June 16, 1944. The respective building managers are held accountable for the implementation of the moves. The poster lists the addresses of the buildings to be inhabited as well as the addresses of building to be vacated. The new locations of living quarters for the Jews are to be marked with a yellow star whereas the vacated buildings are to remove the yellow star. The move is announced as a final move and has to be completed by June 24, 1944. Failure to move would result in a fine for the building managers. Non-Jewish people who live in apartments designated as residences for Jewish people and do not want to move out have to identify their apartments as gentile apartments with signs reading "Here do not live Jews." The signature at the bottom of the poster is "A polgármester" (The Mayor).
Ákos Farkas was the Mayor of Budapest during the most difficult time for its Jewry. Farkas decreed numerous anti-Semitic edicts and was active in the ghettoization of the Jews in Budapest starting in the month of November 1944. When the Red Army approached Budapest, Farkas fled to Germany in late December of 1944. There he was captured by US troops and extradited as a war criminal to Hungary in 1946. Farkas was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment. He died in prison in 1955. Text in Hungarian.
Text in Hungarian. Very light wear along edges with only two three quarter inch closed tears as well as minor wear and sunning along the folds of the poster. Poster overall in very good condition. vg. Item #41660
Price: $6,500.00