Online Auction 023 Part I + Part II - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture + Judaica

Album with Photographs from DP Camps, 1946-1948

Opening: $250
Sold for: $575
Including buyer's premium
A small photograph album of a Holocaust survivor who spent time in several DP camps in Slovenia or Germany during the years 1946-1948 and later immigrated to Israel.
The album contains 36 small photographs, at least seven of them were taken in DP camps in the years after World War II (several of the photographs are captioned or depict signs). Among them: a photograph of a group waving a flag that reads "Kibbutz", two photographs that were taken in Bergen-Belsen, a photograph in which a sign that reads "Control Commission for Germany, Palestine Transit Camp" is seen, photographs from the Windisch-Laibach camp (Slovenia). Possibly, several other photographs were taken in DP camps.
The size of the photographs varies, 4X3.5 cm. to 6.5X10 cm. Album: 9X14 cm. Good condition. Minor blemishes. Folds in several of the tissue guards.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Holocaust and She'erit Hapletah
Holocaust and She'erit Hapletah