A Photograph Album and a Collection of Photographs – HaShomer HaTza'ir and Betar at Displaced Persons Camps in ...

A Photograph Album and a Collection of Photographs – HaShomer HaTza'ir and Betar at Displaced Persons Camps in Germany – Middle to Late 1940s
1. Approximately 50 photographs arranged in an album that apparently belonged to a Holocaust survivor at the Bad Reichenhall Displaced Persons Camp. Bad Reichenhall (Germany), ca. middle to late 1940s.
The photographs show, among other things: parades of the Shomer HaTza'ir movement, pupils at the entrance to the camp's Yavne school, classrooms, the kitchen staff, a blacksmiths' workshop, boxing matches, ping pong games, the football team, children in costumes in Purim spiels and other scenes.
One photograph is captioned by hand on its lower margins (Yiddish) and another is marked on the reverse with an ink stamp: Foto Weinstock, Block 1A Zl. 85.
Size and condition vary. Good overall condition. Stains and blemishes, mostly light. Album: approx. 23X31 cm. Stains and blemishes (mostly to first leaves and to binding). Holes to upper margins of front binding. Cloth strip glued to spine.
2. Approximately 130 photographs from the estate of Shlomo Kor, one of the leaders of the Betar movement at the displaced persons camps in Germany. Fuhrenwald, Landsberg, Munchenberg, Eschwege, Grunwald (Berlin), Poking and elsewhere, 1946-1947 (several photographs are from the pre-war years).
The photographs show, among other things: conventions, parades, sports competitions, visits by dignitaries, training exercises and other events held by Betar groups in the displaced persons camps. In addition, the collection contains a photograph of Ze'ev Jabotinsky signed on veso by some 30 Revisionist leaders; Eri Jabotinsky, Yohanan Bader, Binyamin Ze'ev von Weisl, Yosef Pa'amoni, Menahem Arber and others.
Some of the photographs are captioned by hand on verso (in Hebrew and Yiddish) and marked with ink stamps: "Foto: Ohev Zion, Landsberg"; Foto B. Berneman, Föhrenwald; Foto Oksenhorn, Munchenberg; and other stamps.
Enclosed: a letter of appreciation granted to Shlomo Kor on behalf of the United Brit HaTzohar, German Branch, on June 17, 1948. Signed in the hand of the branch members and with various ink stamps of the Betar Movement; receipt for the payment of a "Dinar" from the World Brit HaTzohar, granted to Kor in 1948; six illustrated tickets with portraits of Betar leaders; and a postcard of the 22nd Zionist Congress with a photograph of the city of Basel.
Size and condition varies. Good-fair overall condition.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.