A typewritten letter signed by Albert Einstein three months before the outbreak of World War II sold for nearly $14,000.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- Einstein warns that "our fellow-Jews" face "calamitous peril"
- His letter sells for nearly twice as much as the highest prediction
- Jews were already being persecuted in Nazi Germany by 1939, when he wrote it
- An estimated six million Jews died in the Holocaust
(CNN) -- A letter from Albert Einstein warning of the persecution of Jews in Germany on the eve of World War II sold for nearly $14,000, about double the auctioneer's highest prediction.
The hand-signed letter went Tuesday night for $13,936, including the buyer's premium, said Sam Heller of the California auction house which sold it.
The auctioneer did not reveal who the buyer was.
The physicist writes of the importance of "rescuing our persecuted fellow-Jews from their calamitous peril and leading them toward a better future" in the June 10, 1939, letter.
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