Auction 2 Eretz Israel, settlement, anti-Semitism, Holocaust and She'erit Ha-Pleita, postcards and photographs, letters by rabbis and rebbes, Judaica, and more
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Jul 30, 2019
1 Abraham Ferrera, Jerusalem, Israel
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LOT 105:

A collection of photographs from the Asmara detention camp. c - 1945

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A collection of photographs from the Asmara detention camp. c - 1945


A rare collection of 44 photographs of Etzel and Lehi exiles in the Sembel camp in Asmara, Eritrea [c - 1945].


The photographs show detainees in sports competitions held in the camp, leisure hours reading a newspaper in their rooms, various group photos (showing the detainees waving the Israeli flag), watch towers and the barbed wire fence of the camp. The entrance gate to the camp is preceded by a large canvas poster 'Welcome in the name of hashem' and the flag of Israel is raised, and more.


In the face of the detainees was a goal that justified, or at least alleviated the forced exile: the creation of detailed documentation of the life of the camp and the life that took place during the bloody years of exile. Already in the early days of the Sambal camp, the Hebrew prisoners began to document the exile to which they had been thrown. The fact is that when residents of the Gilgil camp in Kenya (the third and last camp to which the detainees were transferred towards the end of their stay in Africa) were asked to contribute articles, stories, notes and drawings, memoirs and diary passages, "In other words, any text that has anything to do with their stay in the camp, for a "special booklet" designed by the literary system that was established in the camp, all 439 inhabitants of the camp contributed their texts. In addition, the detainees dealt with photography, both self-portraits in various groups, as well as a photograph of the camp on its various wings, which are rare since in general there were A small number of detainees.


size: 9 x 7 cm, except for two - sizes: 13x8 cm. Very fine condition.


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