Auction 73 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art
Handwritten Ketubah and a Pin from the Cyprus Detention Camps – 1947-1948
Opening: $400
Unsold
Handwritten Ketubah and a pin from the Cyprus detention camps:
1. Ketubah DeIrkesa (replacing a previous Ketubah that has been lost). April 18, 1948.
Ketubah for the couple Chaim son of Dov and Etel daughter of Yaakov, written in Famagusta, Cyprus, as a replacement for their previous Ketubah which was lost. The Ketubah is handwritten on a folded sheet of paper and signed by the witnesses Asher Henzel son of Shimshon (the scribe who wrote the Ketubah) and Peretz Raphael son of Aharon.
23X14 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Small tears to edges. Fold lines.
2. A pin made of a Cypriot coin, 1947
A pin made of a Cypriot ½ Piastre coin filed on both sides. Engraved with tin shacks, a barbed wire fence, a watchtower and the legend "In the Cyprus Exile 11-XII-47" (Hebrew). A bent needle was soldered to verso.
Diameter: 19 mm. Good condition.
The first detention camps in Cyprus, set to detain the illegal immigrants of the SS Henrietta Szold and the SS Yagur, were established in Karaolos, near the port city of Famagusta. The complex consisted of five camps in which detainees lived in tents (these camps were known as the "summer camps"). Later, the British established additional camps in other locations in Cyprus.
1. Ketubah DeIrkesa (replacing a previous Ketubah that has been lost). April 18, 1948.
Ketubah for the couple Chaim son of Dov and Etel daughter of Yaakov, written in Famagusta, Cyprus, as a replacement for their previous Ketubah which was lost. The Ketubah is handwritten on a folded sheet of paper and signed by the witnesses Asher Henzel son of Shimshon (the scribe who wrote the Ketubah) and Peretz Raphael son of Aharon.
23X14 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Small tears to edges. Fold lines.
2. A pin made of a Cypriot coin, 1947
A pin made of a Cypriot ½ Piastre coin filed on both sides. Engraved with tin shacks, a barbed wire fence, a watchtower and the legend "In the Cyprus Exile 11-XII-47" (Hebrew). A bent needle was soldered to verso.
Diameter: 19 mm. Good condition.
The first detention camps in Cyprus, set to detain the illegal immigrants of the SS Henrietta Szold and the SS Yagur, were established in Karaolos, near the port city of Famagusta. The complex consisted of five camps in which detainees lived in tents (these camps were known as the "summer camps"). Later, the British established additional camps in other locations in Cyprus.
The British Mandate of Palestine, Jewish Enlistment, Illegal Immigration,
Cyprus Detention Camps and the Establishment of the State of Israel
The British Mandate of Palestine, Jewish Enlistment, Illegal Immigration,
Cyprus Detention Camps and the Establishment of the State of Israel