Online Auction 31 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
Part I
Immigrant Certificate – The Cyprus Detention Camps – Famagusta, May 1948
Opening: $200
Sold for: $250
Including buyer's premium
A certificate issued by the Immigration Department of the Jewish Agency for a Jewish detainee at the Cyprus camps, before her immigration. Famagusta (Cyprus), May 1948. Hebrew and English.
A printed certificate, filled-in by typewriter, with stamps and a passport photo, and with its owner's personal details: Sara Weisberg, born in 1886, one of the illegal immigrants of the "Pans" (the Pan York and Pan Crescent ships of illegal immigrants) who was imprisoned in Winter Camp 69. Based on the stamps, Weisberg left Cyprus on May 10, 1948 and reached the shores of Israel the following day – four days before the establishment of the State. One stamp is from 1949: "Vaccine against smallpox" (Hebrew).
Approx. 14X10 cm. Good condition. Minor creases. Vertical fold line. Handwriting on verso of the photograph.
A printed certificate, filled-in by typewriter, with stamps and a passport photo, and with its owner's personal details: Sara Weisberg, born in 1886, one of the illegal immigrants of the "Pans" (the Pan York and Pan Crescent ships of illegal immigrants) who was imprisoned in Winter Camp 69. Based on the stamps, Weisberg left Cyprus on May 10, 1948 and reached the shores of Israel the following day – four days before the establishment of the State. One stamp is from 1949: "Vaccine against smallpox" (Hebrew).
Approx. 14X10 cm. Good condition. Minor creases. Vertical fold line. Handwriting on verso of the photograph.
Ottoman and Mandatory Palestine, Jewish Underground Movements, Jewish Immigration, British Detention Camps in Cyprus
Ottoman and Mandatory Palestine, Jewish Underground Movements, Jewish Immigration, British Detention Camps in Cyprus