Jidiszer D. P. Lager, Unrra-P.C.IRO 1946-1948 in Bad Reichenhall [Jewish Displaced Persons Camp, UNRRA – International Refugees Organization 1946-1948 in Bad Reichenhall]. Album with 67 photographs. Bad Reichenhall, 1946-1948. Yiddish in Latin characters.
Album with 67 photographs (pasted to leaves), documenting the operation of aid organizations in the Tikwah displaced persons camp in Bad Reichenhall. The photographs are titled in print on the leaves and show, among others, the administrative staff, delegates of the Jewish Agency and the Eretz-Israeli Office, medical team, camp's rabbis, representatives of JNF, teachers in Tarbut and Yavne schools, classrooms, Talmud Torah in the camp, the kitchen staff, pharmacy, maternity room, courses held in Ort school (metalworking, sewing and tailoring), and more.
An illustration of a Star of David appears on the title page, with a photograph of the camp's gate; on the following page is a printed dedication: "Dedicated to the representatives of the Jewish Agency-Joint committee members and their colleagues, as a souvenir for their joint work with She'erit Hapletah". On the last page appears an additional dedication, for the recipients of the album: "…by giving you the album we hope that in the near future you will be home, in Eretz Israel, and with your brothers and sisters you will remember the hard days of She'erit Hapletah". A long introduction appears at the beginning of the album, with references to the content of the album, its uniqueness and the reasons for preparing it (all dedications are in Yiddish, in Latin characters).
Printed on the binding: "Tikwah, Jewish D.P. Camp in Bad Reichenhall". Leaves with photographs are protected with tissue guards.
Photographs: approx. 10.5X6.5 cm. Good condition. Album: approx. 28.5X21 cm. Slight stains and blemishes to leaves. Tears and open tears at the margins of first leaves, last leaf (not affecting text) and tissue guards. Rubbings and blemishes to binding. Cloth spine (not original).
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.