A Photograph Album and a Collection of Photographs – HaShomer HaTzair and Betar at Displaced Persons Camps in ...

A Photograph Album and a Collection of Photographs – HaShomer HaTzair and Betar at Displaced Persons Camps in Germany – Middle to Late 1940s
1. About 50 photographs arranged in an album that apparently belonged to a Holocaust survivor at the Bad Reichenhall DP Camp. Bad Reichenhall (Germany), ca. middle to late 1940s.
The photographs depict parades of the HaShomer HaTzair movement, pupils at the entrance to the camp's Yavne school, classrooms, the kitchen staff, a blacksmiths' workshop, boxing matches, ping pong games, a football team, children in costumes in Purim spiels and more.
One photograph is captioned by hand on bottom (Yiddish) and another is stamped on verso: Foto Weinstock, Block 1A Zl. 85.
Size and condition vary. Good overall condition. Stains and blemishes, mostly minor. Album: approx. 23X31 cm. Stains and blemishes (mostly to first leaves and to binding). Holes to upper margin of front binding. Cloth strip to spine.
2. About 130 photographs from the estate of Shlomo Kor, of the leaders of the Betar movement at the DP camps in Germany. Föhrenwald, Landsberg, Münchenberg, Eschwege, Grunwald (Berlin), Poking and elsewhere, 1946-1947 (several photographs are from the pre-war years).
The photographs depict conventions, parades, sports competitions, visits by dignitaries, training exercises and other events held by Betar groups in DP camps. In addition, the collection contains a photograph of Ze'ev Jabotinsky signed on verso by some 30 Revisionist leaders: Eri Jabotinsky, Yohanan Bader, Wolfgang (Binyamin Ze'ev) von Weisl, Yosef Pa'amoni, Menahem Arber and others.
Some of the photographs are captioned by hand on verso (in Hebrew and Yiddish) and stamped: "Foto: Ohev Zion, Landsberg"; "Foto B. Berneman, Föhrenwald"; "Foto Oksenhorn, Monchenberg"; and other stamps.
Enclosed: a letter of appreciation addressed to Shlomo Kor by the United Brit HaTzohar, German branch, on June 17, 1948. Hand-signed by members of the branch and stamped with various stamps of the Betar Movement; receipt for the payment of a "Dinar" from the World Brit HaTzohar, issued to Kor in 1948; six illustrated tickets with portraits of Betar leaders; and a postcard of the 22nd Zionist Congress with a photograph of the city of Basel.
Size and condition varies. Good-fair overall condition.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.