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Cyprus photo album

Document | Accession Number: 2016.521.3

Album of 16 photographs from internment camps in Cyprus. Includes images presenting daily life in the camps; the dining hall; the workshops, including the amateur stone chiselers presenting the stone works they have created in the camp; and a a puppet theater. The inner side of the front binding is mounted with a photographic postcard bearing the Hebrew inscription "Souvenir from the Cyprus Exile 5709." On the front binding is a chisled stone plaque with image of the ship at sea, barbed wire, and the Hebrew inscription "Kafrisin 5708" [Cyprus 1948].

Date
circa 1948-1949
Language
Hebrew
Genre/Form
Photo albums.
Extent
1 book enclosure
1 book enclosure
Credit Line
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection. The acquisition of this collection was made possible by the Philip and Janet Levin Foundation
 
Record last modified: 2023-02-24 14:30:03
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