Brycha 1945-1948. Home Through the Vale of Tears

(HOLOCAUST).

circa

n.p

1948

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.

“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.