Auction 018 Online Auction – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
Jan 23, 2019 (your local time)
Israel
 8 Ramban St, Jerusalem.
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LOT 497:

Efraim (Efren) Ilani – Photographs from an Exhibition on the Holocaust

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Efraim (Efren) Ilani – Photographs from an Exhibition on the Holocaust
Seven black and white photographs from an exhibition on the Holocaust by the photographer Efraim (Efren) Ilani (1910-1999). [Jerusalem?, 1967?].
These photographs presumably document the exhibitions in the Chamber of the Holocaust Museum on Mount Zion in Jerusalem, which was founded before the establishment of Yad Vashem as a memorial site with a religious character. The photographs depict, among other things, a "sacred robe" that was sewn for a German officer from parchments taken from a Torah scroll; prayer shawls; parchments and straps for phylacteries piled upon one another; purses whose linings were made from parchments taken from a Torah scroll beside a tambourine whose drum is made from parchment taken from a Torah scroll; tattered and torn prayer shawls wrapped around jugs filled with fragments of parchment; and more.
The photographs are stamped on the back with the photographer’s stamp and numbered in handwriting. One photograph is dated 1967 in handwriting on the back.
Approx. 25X 20.5 cm. Good condition. Minor blemishes.

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