Two items printed by inmates belonging to the Etzel (Irgun Tzva'i Le'umi) and Lehi interned at the Gilgil Detention Camp, Kenya. 1947 and 1948. Hebrew. 1. "Sefer HaMa’atzar VeHaGalut…" ["The Book of the Internment and the Exile (Three Years since the Beginning of Our Exile)"]. "Jewish Detainees' Camp in the Exile, Gilgil, Kenya, 2nd of Heshvan, 5708" [October 1947]. At top of title page (Hebrew): "Badad [Alone] – Journal of Thought and Literature." A thick book, mimeographed typescript, with illustrations, diagrams, tables, musical scores, and maps. A highly comprehensive record of the three years spent by the deportees of the Etzel and Lehi in detention camps in Africa. The present copy of the book has an "Appendix": a dozen (mimeographed) pages printed after the book itself was completed, containing sequels to stories of the deportees, extending to July 1948, when the deportees were finally sent home to the newborn State of Israel. The final paragraph states as follows: " After three years and nine months, the end of our exile is arising. We are yet enveloped by the foreign skies of Kenya; the spikes of barbed wire still encompass the compound; but an air of freedom is already penetrating our hearts, and 254 exiles from Zion are making their way back to the motherland, to Israel, to join the ranks of the fighters, to do battle and triumph ." "Sefer HaMa’atzar VeHaGalut…": 321, [4] ff. + [3] photographic plates, 33 cm. Good-fair condition. Foxing (numerous stains to first and last leaves). Minor blemishes to edges. Tears to title page (including one open tear). Binding stained and slightly blemished, partly detached. "Appendix": [12] ff., 33 cm. Good-fair condition. Foxing. Tears to edges. Open tear to last leaf. 2. Program for Purim party at the theater of the Gilgil Detention Camp: "Bamatenu…" ["Our Stage, the Stage of The Exiles of Zion"]. Gilgil, April, 1948. At the end of the program are instructions regarding the proper conduct expected of the audience, issued by the management of "Bamatenu." 7 pp., 20 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Fold lines and creases. Leaves detached. Enclosed: "Unchained, the Exiles of Eritrea-Sudan-Kenya" (Hebrew), published by "Lohamei Herut Yisrael", 1968 (two leaves apparently missing); a page from the June 14, 1964 issue of the Israeli daily newspaper "Ma'ariv, " with a news item regarding a meeting between Colonel H.P. Rice – British commandant of the detention camp – and Ya’akov Meridor, one of the inmates who escaped through a tunnel.