Lot 556
Collection of Documents - Soldier in the Camouflage Military Unit of the Jewish Brigade
Collection of documents of an engineer in the Tel Aviv-Jaffa Municipality and in the British army, in the first camouflage military unit. 1940s.
Documents of a Brigade soldier, who emigrated from Russia to Eretz Israel in 1925 and joined the Haganah. Served as a city engineer in Tel Aviv -Jaffa and with the outbreak of World War II, he insisted on serving as engineer in the British army and was sent to Italy and Libya with the Jewish Brigade. After his return to Eretz Israel, he worked as an engineer in the Jerusalem region, until his death in 1955.
The collection contains: New Year greeting from 1945 of the First Camouflage Military Unit, the Royal Engineer Battalion; "B'Ohalim", newspaper of the Camouflage Unit - first and second issues (printed in Italy, "internal, not for publication"); Various typewritten documents: humorous lectures, texts of plays, programs of Kabbalat Shabbat, poems, etc. Total of 23 items. Various sizes and conditions.
