Auction 014
Online Auction – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
Jun 5, 2018
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Israel
8 Ramban St, Jerusalem.
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LOT 161:
"Shanah Tovah" Greeting Card from Latroun Detention Camp, 1947
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"Shanah Tovah" greeting card from Latroun detention camp. Ayalon valley, 1947.
A folded card with a printed drawing of a prisoner shaking off his chains facing the rising day, the verse "liberty to the captives …" (Isaiah 61) and a quotation by Shlomo Skolsky.
Inside the folded card appears a greeting written by hand by one of the detainees in the camp: "… for the new year, a year of liberty and release… 1947" (Hebrew).
Open card: 10X15.5 cm, good condition. Small defects to corners of card.
