Online Auction 010 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture

Collection of Photographs – The O.S.E. and The Joint

Opening: $200
Sold for: $275
Including buyer's premium
Collection of photographs recording the operations of the O.S.E. and the Joint. [France, Morocco? And other places, late 1940s-1950s].
Among the photographs:
* Six photographs recording the activity of the medical center of the humanitarian organization O.S.E. in Marseille, France (titled in French). * About 20 photographs documenting a visit to a camp of the O.S.E. and the Joint, most probably in Morocco. * Two portrait-photographs of a child, with Hebrew inscriptions: "Many thanks to Charles, who awakened in me the will to live…" / "Thanks to the Joint I returned to mother…", both are dated on verso, by hand: Marseille, 1949. * Group photograph on the deck of a boat, dated on verso: Marseille, 1949.
* A postcard with a photograph recording a sewing lesson for Jewish orphan girls in a youth center of the Joint near Rome. * More photographs.
Total of about 50 photographs. Size and condition vary.
Anti-Semitism, The Holocaust and She'erit HaPleta
Anti-Semitism, The Holocaust and She'erit HaPleta