Photo-album from a convalescence camp for She'erit Hapletah children in Strobl, Austria. Strobl, 1947.
67 photographs, in an album, documenting the operation of the camp for She'erit Hapletah children in Strobl, Austria. The camp was initiated by the central committee of Jews in Austria and the Jewish Agency and was supported by the Joint.
The photographs portray children bathing in the bath tub and in the lake, eating, studying, staging plays, travelling and exercising. Some photographs show members of the staff as well as representatives of different organizations (culture department of the central committee of Jews in Austria, the Jewish Agency, and more). The photographs are titled on the album's leaves.
Two dedications to Menachem Zaharoni – director of the culture and education bureau of She'erit Hapletah in Austria – appear in the album. One is an official dedication: "Souvenir from the children's lives in Strobl camp, 1947, where some 500 children rested and healed their starved bodies". This dedication is signed by S. Shvadron, secretary of the culture department of the central committee of Austrian Jews and is dated – "Salzburg, September 1947". The second dedication is personal, and is addressed to "My childhood friend Mendel [Menachem Zaharoni], when we met again after so many years, far from the town where we were born – raised – Krynki, formerly lovely, presently destroyed and abandoned […], yours, Shmuel".
Menachem Zaharoni (1912-1979) - one of the founders of the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel and author of dozens of articles, books and guides on the subject of the geography of Israel. Zaharoni was born as Menachem Jaroszweski in Krynki, Poland. At the age of 15 he started his studies in the Hebrew Seminary "Tarbut" in Grodno, and when he graduated at the age of 19, he served as a teacher in Kosiv and as the JNF representative in the town. Zaharoni immigrated to Palestine in 1934, worked as a substitute-teacher in a school in Nesher and in orange groves. In 1947 he went on a mission to establish schools in Displaced Persons Camps in Austria, and in the summer of 1948 returned to Israel. In the years that followed he was engaged in study and education and in guiding tours, courses and continuing education programs.
Photographs: 8.5X6 cm – 12X9 cm. Album: 31X20 cm. Photographs in good-fair condition. Minor stains and blemishes. The leaves of the album are in poor condition. Fragile leaves, falling apart, torn at margins and entirely detached from album. Stains and blemishes to binding.

"Af Al Pi" [Nevertheless]. Broadside issued by Irgun Zeva'i Le'umi. "Bagola" [Hebrew: In exile; Germany], 1946. Yiddish and Hebrew.
Titles in Hebrew and Yiddish – "Af Al Pi" and "Galut – Shi'abud – Herut" ("Exile – Enslavement – Liberty"). Accompanied by three allegorical illustrations: in the first (Galut = Exile), the hand of an SS soldier is shown whipping Jews, human skeletons, with a swastika flag in the background; in the second (Shiabud = Enslavement) – the hand of a British soldier initialed with the letters CID (Committee of Imperial Defence) is seen whipping Holocaust survivors, with a British flag in the background; in the third (Herut = Liberty) – a Jewish fighter is holding a sword after having shed the chains that bound him, emerging from a map of Greater Eretz Israel. Texts in Hebrew and Yiddish on the right margins: speech of Bar Kochba to his people, the testament of Shimshon and the testament of the Maccabees.
43X31 cm. Good condition. Stains. Folding marks. Minor blemishes to folding lines. Tiny tears to margins. Filing holes to right margin (restored). Mounted on acid-free paper.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.

An elaborate certificate of appreciation, illustrated by Lazar (Eliezer) Berson, awarded by the refugee aid committee "Comité Dubouchage" in Nice. Nice (Southern France), 1946. Hebrew and French.
A printed certificate, hand-colored. In the center, below the inscription "Teudat Toda veRav Hesed LeHaAdon" (Gratitude certificate), appears a dedication in French dated 15.11.1946, to Max Blasberg, for assistance granted to "His brethren [the Jews] under enemy occupation". The certificate is signed by hand by Yaakov Doubinski and Lazar (Eliezer) Berson, "on behalf of the Jewish committee of Dubouchage in Nice" [Comité Dubouchage in Nice].
A lion supporting a pole is seen to the right of the dedication; on top of the pole is a round flag is with a Star of David and a Menorah. around the dedication appear Illustrations symbolizing the atrocities which the Jews went through and the anticipated consolation: a bird of prey with a swastika around its neck attacking a Jew with its claws, memorial candles on the background of a Tallith, the Western Wall, Bat Zion sailing to the shores of Palestine, and the synagogue on Dubouchage street in Nice, where the Jewish committee that awarded this certificate held its activities. All of the above are surrounded by a frame decorated with a vegetal pattern and chains, and on the bottom, in two medallions, the year – "1944".
"Comité Dubouchage" is a relief organization for Jewish refugees which operated in Nice, in the south of France, in the 1940s. The organization was founded and directed by Yaakov Doubinski, merchant and activist, one of the most influential persons in Nice. Doubinski acted, with the Italian Jew Angelo Donatti and with others, to achieve documents and residence for thousands of Jews in the area of Nice.
Lazare (Eliezer) Berson (1882-1954) – who illustrated this certificate, is signed as secretary of the "Comité Dubouchage". Berson was born in Kupiškis (near Kovno), and studied art in St. Petersburg and in Paris. He arrived in London in 1914, where he was engaged in art that combines Jewish-folk motifs and founded the "Ben Uri" gallery in order to exhibit and nurture Jewish art. He left England for France in 1916, and passed away in Nice.
The certificate is printed on a cardboard, 60.5X49 cm. Good condition. Minor creases and stains. Slightly darkened margins. Small peelings and tears at margins.