Photo album that documents the activities of the Borochov Youth Movement (Borochov Jugend) in Poland during the period 1945-1947, ie immediately after WWII. Lodz, December 1, 1947. Yiddish.
The Borochov Youth Movement – the young people's branch of the Po'aley Zion party – was a chalutz movement that operated in Poland immediately after the war. Their goal was to save and rehabilitate the thousands of Jewish children and youths who survived the horrors of the Holocaust and were left orphaned, hungry and destitute.
This album contains 15 large photographs (18x24cm), which are actually photographs of illustrated posters displayed at a presentation given to donors to the movement summing up the past two years of the movement's activities (1945-47). In a manner, this album is a "report in pictures" ("a baricht in bild", as written in the introduction) which presents details (primarily statistical) of the movement's varied activities, including kibbutzim for children and youth, production, cultural activities, conventions, seminars for members, book publishing, etc. At the end of the album are six small photographs taken at the convention.
Included is a booklet by Rafael Mahler, titled "'Yugend' – The Youth Movement of the Leftist Po'aley Zion in Poland" (1974), signed by the author.
Album 22.5x30cm. Overall very good condition. Chipping to the first photograph and scuffing to the album margins.