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| Edited By: |Source: ANI |Updated: Mar 11, 2018, 04:22 AM IST
A letter from Albert Einstein warning the Jews of the “calamitous peril” posed to them by the Nazis was sold at an auction for double the estimated price at nearly $14000.
According to Los Angeles auction house, Nate D Sanders, the letter was in, “ very good to near fine condition” and was sold for $13,936 including buyer’s premium.
The typed letter, which the Nobel laureate wrote to a New York based businessman, Hyman Zinn, praises him for his work in helping the Jews flee harassment in Hitler’s Germany.
Einstein himself fled Germany in 1933 when Hitler came to power and the letter was written three years after that in 1939.
“It must be a source of deep gratification to you to be making so important a contribution toward rescuing our persecuted fellow-Jews from their calamitous peril and leading them toward a better future,” the BBC quoted his letter, as stating.
“The power of resistance which has enabled the Jewish people to survive for thousands of years has been based to a large extent on traditions of mutual helpfulness.”
“In these years of affliction our readiness to help one another is being put to an especially severe test. May we stand this test as well as did our fathers before us,” he added.
