Decorated wooden album binding made by a detainee in the detention camp in the Ayalon Valley (Latrun), 1946.
Wooden binding with a brown leather spine. The front board depicts a pair of chained hands holding a torch, drawn in black ink, the Hebrew letter "ש"; inscribed "From Joseph" (Hebrew). The back board depicts a detention camp – tin shacks, barbed wire and a watchtower, titled "Emek Ayalon". Dated (Hebrew) on the edge: "Adar II 5706". Single album leaf bound inside, inscribed: "To Shifra, for your twenty-second birthday. Loyally, from Joseph. […] in the Ayalon Valley, the seventh of Adar II 5706" (10.3.1946. Hebrew).
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 binding and leaf. Stains to spine.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.