Auction 13 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture

"Yad VaShem" – Photo-Album and Architectural Drawings

Opening: $150
Sold for: $275
Including buyer's premium
Album with seven large photographs: Aerial photograph of the area surrounding the "Yad VaShem" site; Model of the structure – View from north and from the south; cornerstone ceremony (two photographs), speech by President Yitzchak Ben-Zvi at that ceremony; paving the road to the site. A photograph of the "Holocaust Memorial Law – Yad VaShem, 1953" opens the album. * Four Architectural drawings of "Yad VaShem" structures. Architects: Benjamin Edelsohn, Aryeh Elchanani, Munio Weinraub, Al Mansfeld, Aryeh Sharon (most of them won the Israel's Prize in Architecture). Photographs size: 30.5X20 cm. Drawing size: 53X 68.5 cm. Good condition. Creases and small tears to borders of some drawings.
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