Brycha 1945-1948. Home Through the Vale of Tears

AUCTION 64 | Thursday, March 19th, 2015 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Ceremonial Objects, Maps and Graphic Art

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Lot 133

(HOLOCAUST).

Brycha 1945-1948. Home Through the Vale of Tears

C.175 photographic illustrations. Introductory text and captions (many of Biblical origin) in English, Hebrew and Yiddish. Introduction by Ephraim Dekel. <<* WITH:>> 24 black and white photographs pasted on final six leaves, depicting the horrors of the Holocaust. Inscription on title-page. Dampstained. Original boards. Oblong 4to.

n.p: circa 1948

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $500

“This album seeks to present a …picture of the wanderings of the ‘remnants’ of European Jewry - wanderings that began at the conclusion of the last war and still continue…” (Introduction). A collection of 175 black and white photographs documenting the “Bericha” - - the ‘illegal’ underground flight of surviving European Jews into Palestine immediately following the Holocaust. Compiled by Ephraim Dekel, a high-ranking Haganah officer and architect of the Bericha escape-route.