Auction 47 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
Embroidered Fabric Flag – Gift of "Po'alei Zion" in the Brigade to the "No'ar Borochovi" in Belgium after the Holocaust
Opening: $800
Sold for: $1,188
Including buyer's premium
A large fabric flag. [Belgium, post World War II, ca. 1945].
Red flag, with an inscription embroidered with yellow threads, and with fringes. At the margins are laces for binding the flag to a pole.
On one side – an embroidered inscription in Hebrew "Workers of all nations unite! To the Noar Borochovi in Belgium, from members of Po'alei Zion in the Jewish Brigade"; on the lower part, in the center, an embroidered emblem of the "No'ar Borochovi". On the reverse appears an identical inscription in Yiddish, instead of the "No'ar Borochovi" emblem, appears the emblem of the Jewish Brigade.
"No'ar Borochovi" movement was revived after the holocaust to continue the Jewish Youth Movement "Jugend" (full name was "Jugend Farband Jugend" – Jugend Youth Alliance), youth movement of "Po'alei Zion Smol", founded in 1904, which was the first of Zionist-socialist youth movements and was active until the invasion of Nazis into Poland in September 1939. 85X136 cm. Good condition. Slight damages (unraveled threads).
Red flag, with an inscription embroidered with yellow threads, and with fringes. At the margins are laces for binding the flag to a pole.
On one side – an embroidered inscription in Hebrew "Workers of all nations unite! To the Noar Borochovi in Belgium, from members of Po'alei Zion in the Jewish Brigade"; on the lower part, in the center, an embroidered emblem of the "No'ar Borochovi". On the reverse appears an identical inscription in Yiddish, instead of the "No'ar Borochovi" emblem, appears the emblem of the Jewish Brigade.
"No'ar Borochovi" movement was revived after the holocaust to continue the Jewish Youth Movement "Jugend" (full name was "Jugend Farband Jugend" – Jugend Youth Alliance), youth movement of "Po'alei Zion Smol", founded in 1904, which was the first of Zionist-socialist youth movements and was active until the invasion of Nazis into Poland in September 1939. 85X136 cm. Good condition. Slight damages (unraveled threads).
Anti-Semitism, The Holocaust and She'erit Hapletah in Europe and Cyprus
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