Large rare collection of letters and documents - most handwritten - from students in the Mir Yeshiva when they were in Shanghai during the Second World War.
The documents include a leaf with a handwritten description by a yeshiva student regarding the miraculous rescue of the yeshiva students in face of the terrible losses in occupied Europe ['The places of the Torah are destroyed, and these are the names in whose mercy saved by a miracle ... the ... in the Mir Yeshiva ...']; a certificate for an expert slaughterer, handwritten, given to Yaakov son of Zvi Hirsch Mordochovitch, a student in the Mir Yeshiva in Shanghai with the approval: "Many times we have checked him and found that he could feel the blemish ... he slaughtered before us hundreds of animals and birds ... we testify ... that he can be trusted regarding kashrut ..."; with a letter in the hand of this young man that "I accepted upon myself ... not to slaughter in this city of Shanghai without the permission of the slaughterers here ... Chaim Plotkin ... Yosef Kistinger ... and I will not trespass ..."; and another number of letters written by him. Leaf with Torah novellae [text on both sides] written by a Mir Yeshiva student in Shanghai regarding the laws of oath and witnesses; two leaves of Torah novellae from a yeshiva student regarding shechita, on official Chinese paper with printed Chinese letters at its head [text on both sides of the leaf]; three leaves [text on both sides] of Torah novellae written by a yeshiva student in Shanghai with Torah novellae regarding "Mafkid and Nifkad", laws of rental, etc.; 11 personal letters in Yiddish written by a yeshiva student; Six passport photos of a yeshiva student [in an envelope with Chinese writing]; ledger with a complete handwritten dictionary - English-Yiddish; newspaper clippings; three shechita ordination certificates printed on photo paper issued in Shanghai [1946 and 1949] and more.
About 50 pieces of paper.
Overall fine condition.