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Album of Photographs – Life in the Detention Camps in Cyprus, 1946-1949
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Album of Photographs – Life in the Detention Camps in Cyprus, 1946-1949
An album with a collection of photographs documenting the lives of the illegal immigrants in the Cyprus detention camps. Cyprus, [1946-1949].
106 photographs, including eighteen uncharacteristically large photographs. The photographs document parades, sport training and work out, youth and children groups gymnastics and foot drills demonstrations and celebrations; Golda Myerson's [Meir] visit to the camps; Brit Milah (ritual circumcision) in Cyprus; a medical clinic and tin-shack pharmacy in one of the camps; an illegal immigrant cooking on an improvised stove at the entrance of a tent; illegal immigrants seen over the double barbed wire leaving the camp on a truck; large pudles after the winter rains in a tent camp – one of the "summer camps"; and more.
The photographs are signed on verso "Photo Hanoch Cyprus" (Hebrew), some also signed in the plate "Photo Heinrich Cyprus" (Hebrew).
Large photographs: approx. 12X17 cm. Small photographs: approx. 6X9 cm. Good condition. Album: 28X20 cm. Good overall condition. Re-bound with new tissue guards. New mounting corners.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
