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Nuremberg Trials

Greenstein & Co. auction May 14 recalls Nuremberg Trials

Tom Hoepf
Tom Hoepf
Nuremberg Trials
Part of the Nuremberg Trials collection assembled by Moses L. Kove. Estimate $7,500-$10,000. J. Greenstein and Co. image

CEDARHURST, N.Y. – A collection of documents and ephemera from Moses L. Kove, a prosecuting attorney of the Nuremberg Nuremberg Trials of Nazi war criminals, will be auctioned off at J. Greenstein and Co., in their spring auction on Monday, May 14. Absentee and Internet live bidding is available through LiveAuctioneers.


The collection includes over 100 documents, photographs, medals, letters, ghetto currency and coins and personal prosecutorial notes.

Also included are related newspaper clippings, original courtroom photographs of the trials, Gestapo arrest warrants, Nazi stamps and other Third Reich related documents, original yellow Stars of David from Germany and France worn by inmates and letters from Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp.

Nuremberg Trials
Collection of five important Zionist letters. a group of letters from important Zionist leaders of the late 19th/early 20th century. Included are Dr. Nathan Birnbaum, Mier Dizengoff, Selig Soskin, Zev Silinof, Nachum Sokolow and Dr. Yechiel Zelanov. Estimate $1,800-$2,200. J. Greenstein and Co. image

Moses L. Kove is pictured in several photographs with Israeli prime ministers David Ben-Gurion and Golda Meir and President Jimmy Carter. The collection also includes several government letters including one from the treasury department praising Kove’s prosecutorial skills in attaining the conviction of counterfeiters in 1951.

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Rare parcel gilt and niello silver Torah crown, Galician, 1771, decorated with applied lions, filigree applications, c-scrolls and other designs. The base with six cartouches, each inscribed with niello writings, 11.3 in. high. Estimate $70,000-$90,000. J. Greenstein and Co. image

Philatelists will be interested in collections of Polish and Israeli stamps and first day covers.

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Mezuzah case, 14K gold, probably USA, modern, formed in the shape of Moses and Aaron the high priest. Estimate: $2,500-$3,000. J. Greenstein and Co. image

Moses L. Kove, was an assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, assistant attorney general for the State of New York, magistrate of the town of Fallsburg and most importantly a war crimes prosecutor in Nuremberg, Germany. He was in charge of investigating the directors of I.G. Farben Chemical and Pharmaceutical conglomerate for their complicity in medical experiments in the concentration camps. During his tenure at Nuremberg, Kove was a special observer for the U.S government at the trial of Rudolf Höss, the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp whose trial took place in Warsaw, Poland. Höss was found guilty and hanged April 16, 1947.

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