Online Auction 021 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture

Collection of Photographs – Cyprus and Betar

Opening: $300
Unsold
Approx. 110 photographs. Most of them are family photographs and a small portion of them document the camps in Cyprus. Arranged in an album. [Europe (?), Cyprus, Palestine and Israel, ca. 1940s to 1950s].
Most of the photographs document a family in Israel of the 1940s and 1950s. approx. 15 of the photographs document the lives at the camps in Cyprus: * Roll calls of the Betar Movement at the camps in Cyprus, one of them of the "Shimshon battalion of Betar". * Group photograph with Ze'ev Jabotinsky's portrait. * Photograph of a couple in one of the camps in Cyprus. Signed in the plate " Foto Mis (?) Cyprus 69". Dated on verso "April 48". * A bride and groom with their friends on the backdrop of a shack. * Montage of works of art in the spirit of Betar – a bust of Jabotinsky, a sculpture of Samson splitting the lion, a painting of Jabotinsky pointing at a map of Europe covered with graves of Jews, and more.
Size and condition vary. Most of the photographs are mounted to the leaves of an album.
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