Auction 52 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture

Stone Desk Stand - Cyprus Internment Camps

Opening: $700
Unsold
Chiseled stone desk stand from the internment camps in Cyprus, [late 1940s].
Desk stand composed of three niches - two closed oblong niches with movable lids (affixed to wooden hinges), and an open niche (ashtray). One of the lids bears a relief Hebrew inscription reading "Kafrisin" (Cyprus).
Height: 4 cm. Length: 13.5 cm, width: 11.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Rubbing, chips with losses and restored fractures.
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