Auction 9
Lot 499:
Letter written entirely by hand and signed by Rabbi Shimon Sofer of Orloy on the subject of people who want to invalidate the drink called Frank, and he writes vehemently against them. Page, written on both sides, with signature and stamp. Orloy 1926. Harav Shimon Sofer, son of the Gaon Rabbi Avraham Shmuel Binyamin Sofer ,the Katav Sofer, a representative of Hungarian Jewry in the 20th century. From the beginning of 1881 he started to serve as Rav and Av Beit Din of Orloy in Hungary, composed “Hitorerut Tshuva.” At age 95 he was sent to the extermination camp of Auschwitz with his community and family members, where he died in 1944. Hy”d. Important and rare letter.
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