WORLD WAR I -- Dr Siegfried Auerbach (1886-1971). Typescript journal, 'Mein Kriegstagebuch', August 1914 - November 1918, with a coda up to 1929, recounting his service in the 81st Infanterie-Regiment throughout the war, chiefly on the Western Front, initially (to October 1915) in the St Quentin sector at Roye, later at Verdun, the Somme, St Mihiel, the double battle of Aisne-Champagne, briefly on the Eastern Front at Wilejska and Poslawy (May-September 1917), then at Reims until his return home (to Frankfurt am Main) in September 1918, the post-war coda recounting his return to the war zone in 1925-26 and reunion with friends amongst the French civilian population, the typed transcript completed in April 1929, illustrated with 188 photographs mounted on card, in total 1,352 pages, 8vo, in 8 volumes, the first volume including a detailed table of his whereabouts during the entire war, the last volume including an index of photographs and a table of 'Judenstatistik des I.R. 81 bis Juni 1918', half blue morocco (bindings worn)
WORLD WAR I -- Dr Siegfried Auerbach (1886-1971). Typescript journal, 'Mein Kriegstagebuch', August 1914 - November 1918, with a coda up to 1929, recounting his service in the 81st Infanterie-Regiment throughout the war, chiefly on the Western Front, initially (to October 1915) in the St Quentin sector at Roye, later at Verdun, the Somme, St Mihiel, the double battle of Aisne-Champagne, briefly on the Eastern Front at Wilejska and Poslawy (May-September 1917), then at Reims until his return home (to Frankfurt am Main) in September 1918, the post-war coda recounting his return to the war zone in 1925-26 and reunion with friends amongst the French civilian population, the typed transcript completed in April 1929, illustrated with 188 photographs mounted on card, in total 1,352 pages, 8vo, in 8 volumes, the first volume including a detailed table of his whereabouts during the entire war, the last volume including an index of photographs and a table of 'Judenstatistik des I.R. 81 bis Juni 1918', half blue morocco (bindings worn); with a collection of approximately 1,108 photographs of the war years, depicting comrades, people and places (including friends amongst the French civilian population), troop movements, Russian and French prisoners of war, the trenches, bivouacs and billets, medical and bathing facilities, kitchens (including a specialised sausage-kitchen), the cheerful members of a burial commando ('Beerdigungskommando'), a visit of the Kaiser to the 81st regiment, and many other scenes, the majority taken on the Western Front, chiefly in the St Quentin sector, including Roye, St Quentin, Rethouvillers, Ham, Balâtre, Villers-les-Roye, Laon, Noyon, Lissonne, Festieuse and Neufchâtel, a short sequence in 1917 depicting the Eastern Front including Wilna, Wilejska and Poslawy, the photographs each 80 x 103mm, meticulously numbered and labelled with details of names and locations (only in two instances with dates, however), the numbering in two sequences, 1-1,030 and, separately, 107-198 (lacking 14 photographs in all), inserted in six albums, 4to, black cloth bindings (worn, one crudely repaired with tape); with a separate memorial photograph album comprising 31 photographs of his brother, 'Unser lieber Heinrich' (died in Flanders, 23 August 1917), oblong 4to, roan; and an extensive autograph diary for the pre-war years, 19 September 1907 - 4 August 1914, including for his military service (1908-09), his engagement and marriage (1910) and for his travels, in particular an extended journey in 1912 to Vietnam, Singapore and Egypt (recounted in seven volumes), in pen and pencil, the later volumes in particular extensively illustrated with photographs, altogether 26 volumes, 4to, black cloth (the bindings worn); also with a journal of his wife, Mina (née Wisloch), 4 August - 5 September 1914, one volume, 4to. Provenance : by descent. THE DIARY AND PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS OF A JEWISH SOLDIER IN THE GERMAN ARMY ON THE WESTERN FRONT . Born into a prosperous family in Frankfurt am Main on 8 July 1886, the third child of Wolfgang Auerbach and Henriette (née Classen), Siegfried Auerbach was one of three brothers to serve on the Western Front. His consciousness of his Jewish identity is a fascinating leitmotif throughout his meticulously transcribed journals and their accompanying photograph albums, which depict, amongst much else, scenes of Jewish divine service attended by helmeted and uniformed soldiers, a number of portraits of the field rabbi Feldprediger Dr Emil Levy (including one of him posing proudly beside his car near Balâtre), and a military grave with a Hebrew inscription. Siegfried Auerbach emigrated with his family to London in the 1930s, dying in West Hampstead in 1971.
WORLD WAR I -- Dr Siegfried Auerbach (1886-1971). Typescript journal, 'Mein Kriegstagebuch', August 1914 - November 1918, with a coda up to 1929, recounting his service in the 81st Infanterie-Regiment throughout the war, chiefly on the Western Front, initially (to October 1915) in the St Quentin sector at Roye, later at Verdun, the Somme, St Mihiel, the double battle of Aisne-Champagne, briefly on the Eastern Front at Wilejska and Poslawy (May-September 1917), then at Reims until his return home (to Frankfurt am Main) in September 1918, the post-war coda recounting his return to the war zone in 1925-26 and reunion with friends amongst the French civilian population, the typed transcript completed in April 1929, illustrated with 188 photographs mounted on card, in total 1,352 pages, 8vo, in 8 volumes, the first volume including a detailed table of his whereabouts during the entire war, the last volume including an index of photographs and a table of 'Judenstatistik des I.R. 81 bis Juni 1918', half blue morocco (bindings worn)
WORLD WAR I -- Dr Siegfried Auerbach (1886-1971). Typescript journal, 'Mein Kriegstagebuch', August 1914 - November 1918, with a coda up to 1929, recounting his service in the 81st Infanterie-Regiment throughout the war, chiefly on the Western Front, initially (to October 1915) in the St Quentin sector at Roye, later at Verdun, the Somme, St Mihiel, the double battle of Aisne-Champagne, briefly on the Eastern Front at Wilejska and Poslawy (May-September 1917), then at Reims until his return home (to Frankfurt am Main) in September 1918, the post-war coda recounting his return to the war zone in 1925-26 and reunion with friends amongst the French civilian population, the typed transcript completed in April 1929, illustrated with 188 photographs mounted on card, in total 1,352 pages, 8vo, in 8 volumes, the first volume including a detailed table of his whereabouts during the entire war, the last volume including an index of photographs and a table of 'Judenstatistik des I.R. 81 bis Juni 1918', half blue morocco (bindings worn); with a collection of approximately 1,108 photographs of the war years, depicting comrades, people and places (including friends amongst the French civilian population), troop movements, Russian and French prisoners of war, the trenches, bivouacs and billets, medical and bathing facilities, kitchens (including a specialised sausage-kitchen), the cheerful members of a burial commando ('Beerdigungskommando'), a visit of the Kaiser to the 81st regiment, and many other scenes, the majority taken on the Western Front, chiefly in the St Quentin sector, including Roye, St Quentin, Rethouvillers, Ham, Balâtre, Villers-les-Roye, Laon, Noyon, Lissonne, Festieuse and Neufchâtel, a short sequence in 1917 depicting the Eastern Front including Wilna, Wilejska and Poslawy, the photographs each 80 x 103mm, meticulously numbered and labelled with details of names and locations (only in two instances with dates, however), the numbering in two sequences, 1-1,030 and, separately, 107-198 (lacking 14 photographs in all), inserted in six albums, 4to, black cloth bindings (worn, one crudely repaired with tape); with a separate memorial photograph album comprising 31 photographs of his brother, 'Unser lieber Heinrich' (died in Flanders, 23 August 1917), oblong 4to, roan; and an extensive autograph diary for the pre-war years, 19 September 1907 - 4 August 1914, including for his military service (1908-09), his engagement and marriage (1910) and for his travels, in particular an extended journey in 1912 to Vietnam, Singapore and Egypt (recounted in seven volumes), in pen and pencil, the later volumes in particular extensively illustrated with photographs, altogether 26 volumes, 4to, black cloth (the bindings worn); also with a journal of his wife, Mina (née Wisloch), 4 August - 5 September 1914, one volume, 4to. Provenance : by descent. THE DIARY AND PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS OF A JEWISH SOLDIER IN THE GERMAN ARMY ON THE WESTERN FRONT . Born into a prosperous family in Frankfurt am Main on 8 July 1886, the third child of Wolfgang Auerbach and Henriette (née Classen), Siegfried Auerbach was one of three brothers to serve on the Western Front. His consciousness of his Jewish identity is a fascinating leitmotif throughout his meticulously transcribed journals and their accompanying photograph albums, which depict, amongst much else, scenes of Jewish divine service attended by helmeted and uniformed soldiers, a number of portraits of the field rabbi Feldprediger Dr Emil Levy (including one of him posing proudly beside his car near Balâtre), and a military grave with a Hebrew inscription. Siegfried Auerbach emigrated with his family to London in the 1930s, dying in West Hampstead in 1971.
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