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Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 22, 2019
Opening: $800
Sold for: $1,625
Including buyer's premium
Seven broadsides, letters and other items concerning the illegal immigrant ship SS Patria. Palestine, November 1940. Hebrew and English.
1. Petition from immigrants on SS Patria to the High Commissioner, pleading to be allowed to stay in Palestine: "There are among us hardly any enemies of Great Britain and Palestine… there are among us 500 Chalutsim who prepared themselves for years intensively for life in Eretz Jisrael… hundreds of our young men […] are eagerly ready to join a Jewish-Palestine troup…". Signed (in print) by representatives of the illegal immigrants: Ephraim Frank, Abraham Kornfeld and Jochanan Rabel. Typewritten (English).
2-3. A letter sent to the British High Commissioner by Esther Mittelman from Tel-Aviv, requesting to let her cousin Meyer Halberstam and his wife Miryam Halberstam to disembark SS Partia and enter Palestine. The sender declares that she will do her utmost to support her relatives in the country. Typewritten (English).
Enclosed with the letter is a reference letter written by David Zvi Pinkas, then CEO of Mizrachi Bank in Tel Aviv and a future Scroll of Independence signatory, testifying to the character and professionalism of Meir Halberstam, who had worked in the bank owned by Pinkas family in Vienna. (English).
4. Broadside from November 24 or 25, 1940, informing Jewish inhabitants in Palestine that illegal immigrants waiting to be deported on SS Patria announced a hunger strike, that on the same day another ship arrived [Atlantic] and that the passengers on board of this ship will be deported to "remote British colonies". The broadside calls to demand that the immigrants be allowed to stay in Palestine.
5. "Yizkor", broadside in memory of the Patria victims, dated 28.11.1940, demanding to let the survivors stay in the country. Signed "Mishmar HaYishuv".
6. Printed paper strip for collection of donations for Patria immigrants.
7. Letter from the "Committee for Patria illegal immigrants" confirming receipt of a donation on the amount of 1 pound by Z. Aharonovitz (later Zalman Aran, Minister of Education in Mapai governments), dated 31.12.1940.
Size and condition vary. Good-fair overall condition.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.
1. Petition from immigrants on SS Patria to the High Commissioner, pleading to be allowed to stay in Palestine: "There are among us hardly any enemies of Great Britain and Palestine… there are among us 500 Chalutsim who prepared themselves for years intensively for life in Eretz Jisrael… hundreds of our young men […] are eagerly ready to join a Jewish-Palestine troup…". Signed (in print) by representatives of the illegal immigrants: Ephraim Frank, Abraham Kornfeld and Jochanan Rabel. Typewritten (English).
2-3. A letter sent to the British High Commissioner by Esther Mittelman from Tel-Aviv, requesting to let her cousin Meyer Halberstam and his wife Miryam Halberstam to disembark SS Partia and enter Palestine. The sender declares that she will do her utmost to support her relatives in the country. Typewritten (English).
Enclosed with the letter is a reference letter written by David Zvi Pinkas, then CEO of Mizrachi Bank in Tel Aviv and a future Scroll of Independence signatory, testifying to the character and professionalism of Meir Halberstam, who had worked in the bank owned by Pinkas family in Vienna. (English).
4. Broadside from November 24 or 25, 1940, informing Jewish inhabitants in Palestine that illegal immigrants waiting to be deported on SS Patria announced a hunger strike, that on the same day another ship arrived [Atlantic] and that the passengers on board of this ship will be deported to "remote British colonies". The broadside calls to demand that the immigrants be allowed to stay in Palestine.
5. "Yizkor", broadside in memory of the Patria victims, dated 28.11.1940, demanding to let the survivors stay in the country. Signed "Mishmar HaYishuv".
6. Printed paper strip for collection of donations for Patria immigrants.
7. Letter from the "Committee for Patria illegal immigrants" confirming receipt of a donation on the amount of 1 pound by Z. Aharonovitz (later Zalman Aran, Minister of Education in Mapai governments), dated 31.12.1940.
Size and condition vary. Good-fair overall condition.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.
Category
Palestine, Ha'apala (Illegal Immigration), the British Mandate, the Establishment of the State of Israel
Catalogue
Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 22, 2019
Opening: $800
Sold for: $2,000
Including buyer's premium
Six broadsides and leaflets concerning the plan of the British to deport illegal immigrants on the ships Milos, Pacific and Atlantic to Mauritius, and five postal items sent from and to Mauritius detention camp. Palestine, 1940; Mauritius, 1941-1945.
The ships Milos, Pacific and Atlantic arrived at the shores of Palestine between November 15 and November 24, 1940, carrying 3,500 refugees from Europe, among them refugees who were imprisoned in concentration camps. The journey was organized by Berthold Storfer on behalf of the Central Office for Jewish Immigration established by the Nazi authorities in Vienna. The three ships were captured by the British at sea and led to Haifa. On November 25, after the passengers of Pacific and Milos and some of the Atlantic passengers boarded the Patria deportation ship meant to sail to a British detention camp in Mauritius, the Haganah organization sabotaged the ship; it sank, taking the life of more than 250 immigrants. The Jewish Yishuv managed to leave the Patria survivors in Palestine, while the rest of the Atlantic passengers, 1700 persons, were deported to Mauritius and were detained there until the end of World War II.
1-6. Six broadsides and leaflets: • Broadside dated 8.11.1940, to the "Jewish Yishuv", publicizing the intention of the British to "deport those who escaped torture… to an island near Madagascar". The broadside also declares that the "Yishuv will not let those who escaped from exile be deported to a second exile" (Hebrew). • Two broadsides on behalf of "Mishmar HaYishuv" announcing a general strike on 20.11.1940. • Protest leaflet on behalf of "Mishmar HaYishuv", dated 9.12.1940, against the British plan to deport the Atlantic passengers to Mauritius. • Leaflet on behalf of "Mishmar HaYishuv" dated 10.12.1940, calling for a general strike "against the deportation of 1700 of Atlantic immigrants". • Broadside announcing that passengers of Atlantic boarded the deportation ships.
7-11. Four postal envelopes and a postcard, with postal stamps and ink-stamps, sent by prisoners in Mauritius and to them: • Envelope sent from Canada to Mauritius detention camp in 1941. • Two envelopes sent from Mauritius detention camps to Palestine in 1943. • Envelope sent from Mauritius detention camp to a soldier in the Jewish Brigade, 1945. • Postcard with a handwritten letter (German) sent from Mauritius detention camp to Haifa, 25.2.1945. In the letter, the sender, Adolf Gerstl, informs his daughter Kathie that he was released from the detention camp with all the other detainees, however there are not enough ships and if the Yishuv will not assist, they might stay on the island for much longer.
Size and condition vary. Good to fair overall condition.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.
The ships Milos, Pacific and Atlantic arrived at the shores of Palestine between November 15 and November 24, 1940, carrying 3,500 refugees from Europe, among them refugees who were imprisoned in concentration camps. The journey was organized by Berthold Storfer on behalf of the Central Office for Jewish Immigration established by the Nazi authorities in Vienna. The three ships were captured by the British at sea and led to Haifa. On November 25, after the passengers of Pacific and Milos and some of the Atlantic passengers boarded the Patria deportation ship meant to sail to a British detention camp in Mauritius, the Haganah organization sabotaged the ship; it sank, taking the life of more than 250 immigrants. The Jewish Yishuv managed to leave the Patria survivors in Palestine, while the rest of the Atlantic passengers, 1700 persons, were deported to Mauritius and were detained there until the end of World War II.
1-6. Six broadsides and leaflets: • Broadside dated 8.11.1940, to the "Jewish Yishuv", publicizing the intention of the British to "deport those who escaped torture… to an island near Madagascar". The broadside also declares that the "Yishuv will not let those who escaped from exile be deported to a second exile" (Hebrew). • Two broadsides on behalf of "Mishmar HaYishuv" announcing a general strike on 20.11.1940. • Protest leaflet on behalf of "Mishmar HaYishuv", dated 9.12.1940, against the British plan to deport the Atlantic passengers to Mauritius. • Leaflet on behalf of "Mishmar HaYishuv" dated 10.12.1940, calling for a general strike "against the deportation of 1700 of Atlantic immigrants". • Broadside announcing that passengers of Atlantic boarded the deportation ships.
7-11. Four postal envelopes and a postcard, with postal stamps and ink-stamps, sent by prisoners in Mauritius and to them: • Envelope sent from Canada to Mauritius detention camp in 1941. • Two envelopes sent from Mauritius detention camps to Palestine in 1943. • Envelope sent from Mauritius detention camp to a soldier in the Jewish Brigade, 1945. • Postcard with a handwritten letter (German) sent from Mauritius detention camp to Haifa, 25.2.1945. In the letter, the sender, Adolf Gerstl, informs his daughter Kathie that he was released from the detention camp with all the other detainees, however there are not enough ships and if the Yishuv will not assist, they might stay on the island for much longer.
Size and condition vary. Good to fair overall condition.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.
Category
Palestine, Ha'apala (Illegal Immigration), the British Mandate, the Establishment of the State of Israel
Catalogue
Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 22, 2019
Opening: $1,200
Sold for: $1,750
Including buyer's premium
15 photographs, certificates and other printed items documenting the illegal immigrant ship Exodus; arrival in Palestine and deportation of the illegal immigrants to Poppendorf camp in Germany. Palestine and Germany, 1947. Hebrew and English.
1-9. Nine photographs, some for the press, among them: photographs of the struggle of the Exodus illegal immigrants against the British forces; photograph of the ship at sea; photographs of the ship in Haifa port (one photograph by Hans Haim Pinn); photograph of Poppendorf DP camp, Germany, to where the illegal immigrants were deported; and more.
10. Issue 6-7 of the monthly "Palestine and Middle East". Tel-Aviv, June-July 1947. English. Special issue of the monthly dedicated, almost entirely, to the visit of UNSCOP United Nations committee. On the title page and on a number of other pages appear photographs of the illegal immigrant ship.
11. "Broadcast of an Alarm from the Illegal Immigrant Ship!" – special edition of "Hatzofe" newspaper dated 18.7.1947. Single leaf. Update about the British forces taking control over Exodus, call to the UNSCOP committee members to arrive in Haifa and observe the struggle, and an announcement of a general strike for several hours.
12. Exodus 1947, by Daphne Trevor. Published by "Palestine and Middle East", Tel-Aviv, 1947. English. A booklet with seven photographs, telling the story of Exodus.
13-15. Three certificates given to illegal immigrants of Exodus in Poppendorf camp, Germany. The certificates state that "The holder of this… is a Maapil of 'Exodus' 1947; he/she was brought by force to Germany from Haifa and is in exile on his way back to Eretz Israel". Two certificates are filled-in by hand and bear a passport photograph of the holder. The third certificate is blank.
Size and condition vary. Good overall condition.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.
1-9. Nine photographs, some for the press, among them: photographs of the struggle of the Exodus illegal immigrants against the British forces; photograph of the ship at sea; photographs of the ship in Haifa port (one photograph by Hans Haim Pinn); photograph of Poppendorf DP camp, Germany, to where the illegal immigrants were deported; and more.
10. Issue 6-7 of the monthly "Palestine and Middle East". Tel-Aviv, June-July 1947. English. Special issue of the monthly dedicated, almost entirely, to the visit of UNSCOP United Nations committee. On the title page and on a number of other pages appear photographs of the illegal immigrant ship.
11. "Broadcast of an Alarm from the Illegal Immigrant Ship!" – special edition of "Hatzofe" newspaper dated 18.7.1947. Single leaf. Update about the British forces taking control over Exodus, call to the UNSCOP committee members to arrive in Haifa and observe the struggle, and an announcement of a general strike for several hours.
12. Exodus 1947, by Daphne Trevor. Published by "Palestine and Middle East", Tel-Aviv, 1947. English. A booklet with seven photographs, telling the story of Exodus.
13-15. Three certificates given to illegal immigrants of Exodus in Poppendorf camp, Germany. The certificates state that "The holder of this… is a Maapil of 'Exodus' 1947; he/she was brought by force to Germany from Haifa and is in exile on his way back to Eretz Israel". Two certificates are filled-in by hand and bear a passport photograph of the holder. The third certificate is blank.
Size and condition vary. Good overall condition.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.
Category
Palestine, Ha'apala (Illegal Immigration), the British Mandate, the Establishment of the State of Israel
Catalogue
Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 22, 2019
Opening: $400
Unsold
A label issued during the protest against British policy when illegal immigrants on the ship Exodus were deported, 1947.
Printed on the label are the flag of Britain with a Swastika in the center and the legend: "S.S. Exodus 1947, British Floating Dachau".
This label may have been created in Washington by The Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington. See enclosed article.
7X11 cm. Good condition.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.
Printed on the label are the flag of Britain with a Swastika in the center and the legend: "S.S. Exodus 1947, British Floating Dachau".
This label may have been created in Washington by The Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington. See enclosed article.
7X11 cm. Good condition.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.
Category
Palestine, Ha'apala (Illegal Immigration), the British Mandate, the Establishment of the State of Israel
Catalogue
Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 22, 2019
Opening: $800
Sold for: $1,063
Including buyer's premium
Press Telegram sent to the editorial of the Daily Press in London upon the arrival of the illegal immigrant ship Exodus in Haifa port. [1947]. English.
The telegram, written by an English journalist, describes the arrival of the ship Exodus and the boarding of immigrants on deportation ships: "Part of 4500 repeat 4500 immigrants stood on densely crowded upper deck singing Jewish national anthem… shortly after began transshipment to… Ocean Vigour… [one of the deportation ships to which deportees were transferred in Haifa port] one woman had died during journey".
[1] leaf, 26 cm. Good condition. Stains and creases. A few tears, some reinforced with adhesive tape on verso.
Enclosed is a receipt for delivery of the telegram from July 18, 1947.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.
The telegram, written by an English journalist, describes the arrival of the ship Exodus and the boarding of immigrants on deportation ships: "Part of 4500 repeat 4500 immigrants stood on densely crowded upper deck singing Jewish national anthem… shortly after began transshipment to… Ocean Vigour… [one of the deportation ships to which deportees were transferred in Haifa port] one woman had died during journey".
[1] leaf, 26 cm. Good condition. Stains and creases. A few tears, some reinforced with adhesive tape on verso.
Enclosed is a receipt for delivery of the telegram from July 18, 1947.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.
Category
Palestine, Ha'apala (Illegal Immigration), the British Mandate, the Establishment of the State of Israel
Catalogue
![Ekzodus affair–1947. Aroisgegebn durkh der Haganah in galut Europa, [published by Haganah in Europe exile], [Germany?, 1948].](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale64-public/23.jpg "Booklet about the Exodus Affair – Germany, 1948")
Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 22, 2019
Opening: $500
Unsold
Ekzodus affair–1947. Aroisgegebn durkh der Haganah in galut Europa, [published by Haganah in Europe exile], [Germany?, 1948]. Yiddish.
A booklet telling the story of the illegal immigrant ship Exodus, with passages written by the ship's captain, the commander and other crew members. It seems that the booklet was printed for Haganah people who, at the time, were in Germany, acquiring weapons, recruiting and training volunteers and assisting "Habricha" movement. One of the first publications concerning the Exodus Affair.
134 pp, 14.5X21 cm. Missing back cover. Good-fair condition. Stains. Tears at margins of front cover and some of the booklet's leaves (small open tears to corners of a number of leaves). Some of the tears are repaired with adhesive tape. Strips of paper are pasted to margins of front cover and last leaf. Two last leaves are detached. Ink-stamp. One leaf is trimmed at the bottom.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.
A booklet telling the story of the illegal immigrant ship Exodus, with passages written by the ship's captain, the commander and other crew members. It seems that the booklet was printed for Haganah people who, at the time, were in Germany, acquiring weapons, recruiting and training volunteers and assisting "Habricha" movement. One of the first publications concerning the Exodus Affair.
134 pp, 14.5X21 cm. Missing back cover. Good-fair condition. Stains. Tears at margins of front cover and some of the booklet's leaves (small open tears to corners of a number of leaves). Some of the tears are repaired with adhesive tape. Strips of paper are pasted to margins of front cover and last leaf. Two last leaves are detached. Ink-stamp. One leaf is trimmed at the bottom.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.
Category
Palestine, Ha'apala (Illegal Immigration), the British Mandate, the Establishment of the State of Israel
Catalogue
Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 22, 2019
Opening: $500
Unsold
"BaDerech, Newspaper of the Illegal Immigrants aboard SS Empire Rival – a Ship of the Famed British Navy, Etched in our Hearts for Eternity in Disgrace". Created by: representatives of the immigrants and Haganah members; location of the editorial board: the ship's cellars. [July?]-August 1947. Yiddish, headlines in Hebrew.
Two issues of a newspaper, typewritten by passengers of SS Empire Rival and mimeographed in the ship's hold at sea. The Empire Rival was one of three ships to which the passengers of the Exodus were transferred at Haifa Port on July 18, 1947, after their entry into Palestine was refused. Apparently, no other issues were printed.
First issue: 5 leaves (detached from each other), second issue: 4 leaves (detached from each other), 25-29.5 cm. Good condition. Stapling holes and a few small tears to margins (some reinforced with adhesive tape). Folding marks and minor blemishes. One leaf has an open tear at the lower right corner.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.
Two issues of a newspaper, typewritten by passengers of SS Empire Rival and mimeographed in the ship's hold at sea. The Empire Rival was one of three ships to which the passengers of the Exodus were transferred at Haifa Port on July 18, 1947, after their entry into Palestine was refused. Apparently, no other issues were printed.
First issue: 5 leaves (detached from each other), second issue: 4 leaves (detached from each other), 25-29.5 cm. Good condition. Stapling holes and a few small tears to margins (some reinforced with adhesive tape). Folding marks and minor blemishes. One leaf has an open tear at the lower right corner.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.
Category
Palestine, Ha'apala (Illegal Immigration), the British Mandate, the Establishment of the State of Israel
Catalogue
Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 22, 2019
Opening: $600
Unsold
"From Deportation to Cyprus (June 1946) to Operation 'P'dut' (February 1949)", "Photo-Studio L. Kougel, Haifa", photo album. [ca. 1949-1950].
Album with approx. 190 photographs (pasted to album's leaves), documenting the various stages in the "Cyprus Deportation": arrival of illegal immigrant ships from Europe to Palestine, arrest of immigrants and immigrants boarding the deportation ships, Cyprus and Atlit detention camps, and finally – operation "P'dut" – the transport of immigrants to Israel after the State of Israel was established.
The photographs portray, among others: Immigrants taken down from the ships Tel-Hai, Anzo Sireni, Henrietta Szold, Yagur, Bracha Fuld, Knesset Israel, Latroun, Haim Arlozoroff, Theodor Herzl, Shear Yashuv, Yetziat Europa 1947, Haganah, Birya, Palmach, Moledet, Haviva Reik, and other ships. • Life in Atlit detention camp – sewing course, babies ward, "Bikur Holim", and more. • Life in Cyprus detention camps – barracks in winter camps, dwelling tents, handicrafts of detainees, day of opening the gates and more. • Photographs of the last deportees arriving to Israel during Operation "P'dut", in January-February 1949 (on board of the ships Galila and Atzmaut). • and more.
The album is in its original binding; on the front appears the title in handwriting surrounded by a drawing of the Mediterranean basin, with Cyprus and Israel.
Enclosed: official envelope of Photo-Studio Kougel.
Photographs: approx. 8.5X6 cm. Album: 29X20.5 cm. Good overall condition. Some blemishes, creases and stains to photographs. Some tears and blemishes to margins of leaves. Tears to binding and spine (restored spine). Rear binding is detached. New tissue guards.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.
Album with approx. 190 photographs (pasted to album's leaves), documenting the various stages in the "Cyprus Deportation": arrival of illegal immigrant ships from Europe to Palestine, arrest of immigrants and immigrants boarding the deportation ships, Cyprus and Atlit detention camps, and finally – operation "P'dut" – the transport of immigrants to Israel after the State of Israel was established.
The photographs portray, among others: Immigrants taken down from the ships Tel-Hai, Anzo Sireni, Henrietta Szold, Yagur, Bracha Fuld, Knesset Israel, Latroun, Haim Arlozoroff, Theodor Herzl, Shear Yashuv, Yetziat Europa 1947, Haganah, Birya, Palmach, Moledet, Haviva Reik, and other ships. • Life in Atlit detention camp – sewing course, babies ward, "Bikur Holim", and more. • Life in Cyprus detention camps – barracks in winter camps, dwelling tents, handicrafts of detainees, day of opening the gates and more. • Photographs of the last deportees arriving to Israel during Operation "P'dut", in January-February 1949 (on board of the ships Galila and Atzmaut). • and more.
The album is in its original binding; on the front appears the title in handwriting surrounded by a drawing of the Mediterranean basin, with Cyprus and Israel.
Enclosed: official envelope of Photo-Studio Kougel.
Photographs: approx. 8.5X6 cm. Album: 29X20.5 cm. Good overall condition. Some blemishes, creases and stains to photographs. Some tears and blemishes to margins of leaves. Tears to binding and spine (restored spine). Rear binding is detached. New tissue guards.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.
Category
Palestine, Ha'apala (Illegal Immigration), the British Mandate, the Establishment of the State of Israel
Catalogue
Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 22, 2019
Opening: $1,000
Unsold
Approximately 65 photographs documenting the lives of inmates in Cyprus detention camps. Cyprus (a small number of photographs from Palestine), ca. 1947-1949.
Documented in the photographs, among others, are: tents and tin barracks, drawing water from water reservoirs, work in the field, sports competitions, cultural events, Zionist groups in the camp ("Agudat Yisrael", "Ichud HaNo'ar HaZioni", "Shurot HaMaginim", "HaMifal LeBitachon Ha'am BeMachanot Cafrisin" and others), singer Shoshana Damari's performance on 28.4.1948, one of the camp's children learning how to lay Tefilin, camp's gate burning after being set on fire by the detainees, an escape tunnel dug in one of the barracks, Rosh HaShanah 5709 (1948) festivities in a tent, immigrants crowded near the gate before their liberation, and more. A number of photographs document the detainees on their way to Israel (among them photographs of the ships Ocean Vigour, Empire Rival and Empire Rest).
In addition, the collection includes three souvenir cards from the detention camps, two with a photomontage of photographs from the camp and one with an illustration and a photograph.
Pasted on the back of eight photographs are press information notes. Some photographs are titled by hand on the back. Six photographs are titled in the plate, and three are signed in the plate "Foto Sa-Ra" (active in camp 67), and "Foto Pais".
Approx. 65 photographs, approx. 6X6 to 20X26 cm. (most photographs are small). Condition varies. Good overall condition. Some stains, creases and blemishes to some of the photographs.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.
Documented in the photographs, among others, are: tents and tin barracks, drawing water from water reservoirs, work in the field, sports competitions, cultural events, Zionist groups in the camp ("Agudat Yisrael", "Ichud HaNo'ar HaZioni", "Shurot HaMaginim", "HaMifal LeBitachon Ha'am BeMachanot Cafrisin" and others), singer Shoshana Damari's performance on 28.4.1948, one of the camp's children learning how to lay Tefilin, camp's gate burning after being set on fire by the detainees, an escape tunnel dug in one of the barracks, Rosh HaShanah 5709 (1948) festivities in a tent, immigrants crowded near the gate before their liberation, and more. A number of photographs document the detainees on their way to Israel (among them photographs of the ships Ocean Vigour, Empire Rival and Empire Rest).
In addition, the collection includes three souvenir cards from the detention camps, two with a photomontage of photographs from the camp and one with an illustration and a photograph.
Pasted on the back of eight photographs are press information notes. Some photographs are titled by hand on the back. Six photographs are titled in the plate, and three are signed in the plate "Foto Sa-Ra" (active in camp 67), and "Foto Pais".
Approx. 65 photographs, approx. 6X6 to 20X26 cm. (most photographs are small). Condition varies. Good overall condition. Some stains, creases and blemishes to some of the photographs.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.
Category
Palestine, Ha'apala (Illegal Immigration), the British Mandate, the Establishment of the State of Israel
Catalogue
Lot 27 "BeGerush Kafrisin" – Album with Prints from the Cyprus Detention Camps, 1948 – Naftali Bezem
!["Begerush Kafrisin" [In the Cyprus Exile], album with twenty-six linocuts portraying the life of She'erit Hapletah in Cyprus](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale64-public/27.jpg "\"BeGerush Kafrisin\" – Album with Prints from the Cyprus Detention Camp")
Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 22, 2019
Opening: $700
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"Begerush Kafrisin" [In the Cyprus Exile], album with twenty-six linocuts portraying the life of She'erit Hapletah in Cyprus detention camps, by art students, exiles in Cyprus, tutored by Naftali Bezem. Cyprus, [ca. 1948].
On the first leaf is a handwritten note: "this book was prepared by art students at the Instructors' seminar and was printed and bound by the students in 120 copies". A dedication appears on this page: "for Moshe Brachman, in memory of Cyprus days, with appreciation and respect, Baruch Rubinstein for the instructors' seminar in Cyprus camps. 1948". Brachman, one of the heads of the "Committee for Cyprus Exiles", visited the camps in March 1948.
The album opens with a short quote from the will and testament of Pinhas Rutenberg: "… We will be brothers in life, in creating, in action, and in building". On the following page is a short introduction: "Cyprus is one stop on the road of suffering en route to The Land of Israel. For Jews it meanes barbed wire fences, enforced idleness and being condemned to atrophy, but even within this reality, life is thriving. Of these it is told in this book by members of the camp of Israel in the Cyprus exile". These two leaves, and the list of prints appearing on the last leaf, are also linocuts.
The Pinchas Ruthenberg Seminar, financed by the JDC, operated in the Cyprus deportation camps from mid-1947 to 1949. The seminar offered diverse courses, and teachers were brought to Cyprus to instruct the classes. Among the teachers were artists (Naftali Bezem, Zeev Ben-Zvi and others) who instructed art workshops.
[29] leaves, 49 cm. Good-fair condition. Original binding with a linocut. Minor blemishes and stains. Tear to front endpaper. Loose binding. Stains, tears and blemishes to binding.
On the first leaf is a handwritten note: "this book was prepared by art students at the Instructors' seminar and was printed and bound by the students in 120 copies". A dedication appears on this page: "for Moshe Brachman, in memory of Cyprus days, with appreciation and respect, Baruch Rubinstein for the instructors' seminar in Cyprus camps. 1948". Brachman, one of the heads of the "Committee for Cyprus Exiles", visited the camps in March 1948.
The album opens with a short quote from the will and testament of Pinhas Rutenberg: "… We will be brothers in life, in creating, in action, and in building". On the following page is a short introduction: "Cyprus is one stop on the road of suffering en route to The Land of Israel. For Jews it meanes barbed wire fences, enforced idleness and being condemned to atrophy, but even within this reality, life is thriving. Of these it is told in this book by members of the camp of Israel in the Cyprus exile". These two leaves, and the list of prints appearing on the last leaf, are also linocuts.
The Pinchas Ruthenberg Seminar, financed by the JDC, operated in the Cyprus deportation camps from mid-1947 to 1949. The seminar offered diverse courses, and teachers were brought to Cyprus to instruct the classes. Among the teachers were artists (Naftali Bezem, Zeev Ben-Zvi and others) who instructed art workshops.
[29] leaves, 49 cm. Good-fair condition. Original binding with a linocut. Minor blemishes and stains. Tear to front endpaper. Loose binding. Stains, tears and blemishes to binding.
Category
Palestine, Ha'apala (Illegal Immigration), the British Mandate, the Establishment of the State of Israel
Catalogue
Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 22, 2019
Opening: $600
Unsold
Marriage ketubah from a detention camp in Cyprus, and a card with a photomontage of the married couple and photos of the camp. Cyprus, ca. 1948.
1. Ketubah recording the marriage of Moshe Ben Ya'akov and Esther Bat Yitzhak, from 15 February 1948. "On this date in the camp of Jewish detainees near the city of Dekhelia on the island of Cyprus".
Near the city of Dekhelia north of Larnaca were seven internment camps known as "Winter Camps". Due to the poor conditions, the ketubah was typewritten and mimeographed, on thin paper of poor quality. On the leaf's verso is an ink stamp of the "Chief Rabbinate, Cyprus", hand-signed by the secretary.
Approx. 30.5X23 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, folding marks and some holes (small, with no damage to text). Restored tears along folding marks and at the margins.
2. Souvenir card with a photomontage: photo of a young couple (presumably the couple whose names appear on the ketubah), surrounded by four photos of the camp.
6.5X9 cm. Good-fair condition. Creases and blemishes. Stains on verso.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.
1. Ketubah recording the marriage of Moshe Ben Ya'akov and Esther Bat Yitzhak, from 15 February 1948. "On this date in the camp of Jewish detainees near the city of Dekhelia on the island of Cyprus".
Near the city of Dekhelia north of Larnaca were seven internment camps known as "Winter Camps". Due to the poor conditions, the ketubah was typewritten and mimeographed, on thin paper of poor quality. On the leaf's verso is an ink stamp of the "Chief Rabbinate, Cyprus", hand-signed by the secretary.
Approx. 30.5X23 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, folding marks and some holes (small, with no damage to text). Restored tears along folding marks and at the margins.
2. Souvenir card with a photomontage: photo of a young couple (presumably the couple whose names appear on the ketubah), surrounded by four photos of the camp.
6.5X9 cm. Good-fair condition. Creases and blemishes. Stains on verso.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.
Category
Palestine, Ha'apala (Illegal Immigration), the British Mandate, the Establishment of the State of Israel
Catalogue
![Souvenir plaque from Cyprus detention camps. [1946-1949]. Wood marquetry. Seen on the plaque are a watch tower and the bridge](https://files.kedem-auctions.com/files/Sale64-public/29.jpg "Souvenir Plaque from Cyprus Detention Camps – Wood Marquetry – Cyprus,")
Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 22, 2019
Opening: $500
Unsold
Souvenir plaque from Cyprus detention camps. [1946-1949].
Wood marquetry.
Seen on the plaque are a watch tower and the bridge which connected the two blocks of "Winter Camps" – detention camps no. 64-69 which were located on the east and west side of the Famagusta-Larnaca road. The word "Cyprus" is seen under the bridge.
Approx. 17X11 cm. Good condition. Slight damage to wood.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.
Wood marquetry.
Seen on the plaque are a watch tower and the bridge which connected the two blocks of "Winter Camps" – detention camps no. 64-69 which were located on the east and west side of the Famagusta-Larnaca road. The word "Cyprus" is seen under the bridge.
Approx. 17X11 cm. Good condition. Slight damage to wood.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.
Category
Palestine, Ha'apala (Illegal Immigration), the British Mandate, the Establishment of the State of Israel
Catalogue