Auction 52 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
Heart-Shaped Stone Box - Cyprus Internment Camps - Etched Dedication and Photograph
Opening: $600
Unsold
Stone box, from the internment camps in Cyprus, 1948.
Heart-shaped box. On the external side of the lid is a chiseled flower basket with the letters bet and ayin on the sides. On the inner side of the lid is an etched dedication in Hebrew: "In everlasting memory, from Hirsch Sigmund and Sonia / Cyprus 29.IX.1948". Alongside the dedication, inside a diamond-shaped frame is a photograph - a portrait of Sonia Hirsch.
Height: 3 cm, length: 10 cm, width: 11 cm. Good condition. Rubbing and slight damage.
Provenance: Willy Lindwer collection.
Heart-shaped box. On the external side of the lid is a chiseled flower basket with the letters bet and ayin on the sides. On the inner side of the lid is an etched dedication in Hebrew: "In everlasting memory, from Hirsch Sigmund and Sonia / Cyprus 29.IX.1948". Alongside the dedication, inside a diamond-shaped frame is a photograph - a portrait of Sonia Hirsch.
Height: 3 cm, length: 10 cm, width: 11 cm. Good condition. Rubbing and slight damage.
Provenance: Willy Lindwer collection.
Anti-Semitism, The Holocaust and She'erit Ha-Pletah, Jewish Brigade, Cyprus Internment Camps
Anti-Semitism, The Holocaust and She'erit Ha-Pletah, Jewish Brigade, Cyprus Internment Camps