Decorated wooden album cover, made by a detainee in the detention camp in the Ayalon Valley (Latrun), 1946. Hebrew.
Wooden boards, with a brown leather spine. The front board depicts a pair of chained hands holding a torch and the Hebrew letter "ש", drawn in black ink; inscribed "From Joseph". The back board depicts a detention camp – tin shacks, barbed wire and a watchtower, titled "Emek Ayalon". Dated on the edge: "Adar II 5706" (March 1946).
Single album leaf bound inside, inscribed: "To Shifra, for your twenty-second birthday… from Joseph. […] in the Ayalon Valley, the seventh of Adar II 5706" (March 10, 1946).
At least one additional work, also dedicated to Shifra and made (or ordered) by the same Latrun camp detainee is known of. See Kedem auction no. 68 item 48.
10X22 cm. Good condition. Minor blemishes to boards and leaf. Stains to spine.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.