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LOT 48:
Photographs of Polish Jews who escaped the Nazi oppressor aboard the famous ship "Polania" - signed with ink stamps ...
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Photographs of Polish Jews who escaped the Nazi oppressor aboard the famous ship "Polania" - signed with ink stamps of the port of Constanza from which they left for Israel
Three photographs of Jews from Poland who fled the Nazi occupier aboard the famous ship "Polania" - signed with the ink stamp of the photographer BOLESLAW FURMANK in the port of Constanza, from which they left for the land of Israel.
Appearing: a group photograph of families from Poland with their children holding a buoy with the ship's name: POLONIA (this photo was published on various stages that rescued the Jews of 'Polania'), and two small photographs of Polish Jews near the POLONIA buoy.
On board 'POLONIA', many members of the Fifth Aliyah arrived in Eretz Israel who managed to escape from the territory of Poland shortly before the Nazi occupier arrived. The ship is well remembered by the immigrants from Poland, who later found out that they had escaped in time from the massacre. In 1933, Polonia began transporting passengers from the port of Constanza in Romania, via Istanbul and Piraeus to the port of Haifa in Eretz Israel. The ship carried the immigrants at sea, for five days, after a three-day journey by train from the cities of Poland as Warsaw and Lvov to the port of Constanza, where the photographs before us were signed.
Polonia also appears the memories of the illegal immigrants who tried to arrive to Eretz Israel in 1934 on a difficult voyage on the ship velos, until they were forced to abandon it and return to the Polish border, provided that the Polish authorities soon left it and the certificates the Jewish Agency provided. Their ascent was finally arranged and when they boarded the polonia it looked to them like a luxury ship. The ship Polonia was also used for the secret transport of weapons to Israel for the Haganah organization.
(It is interesting to note that the ship, built in British shipyards in Glasgow between 1910 and 1915, was purchased by the Gdansk-America line in 1930. The ship was nicknamed the "Gems of Princess Dagmara" because Dagmar, the widow of Tsar Alexander III, sold her jewelry To finance the construction of the three ships, which were considered luxury ships in relation to the period).
One photograph size 9x14 cm. And two 9x7 cm. condition good - very good.
