A magnificent album with twenty dedications from survivors who stayed in weiden Germany, in 1949. The album was dedicated in honor of President Haim Weizmann on the occasion of his 75th birthday. Important Signatures.
A magnificent designed album combining KKL-JNF elements, Zionist symbols and the map of the Land of Israel Israel. On each page is a greeting "to Prof. Haim Weizman for his seventy-five year anniversary, feeling respectful and dear to my heartfelt congratulations. May your eyes envision the final of the fortification of our state and Kibbutz scattered Israel from every site"
Among the names listed as signed are Shraga Degani and Zeev Singer. It may be the well-known survivors who survived the death camps (although we did not know for sure if they were in Weiden at the time).
Degani was born in Poland in 1909, one of the bold Jewish partisans in Poland - initiated a military operation to liberate the Jews of the Miadel ghetto. He survived two riots during which his wife and son were murdered. While serving in the ghetto as a family flour station manager, organized an underground and hid weapons used in partisan activities and passed on the German general. After fleeing the ghetto, he joined the "Avenger Battalion" in the ranks of the Red Army. He was a squad commander and participated in many paratroopers. Miadal and the Jews smuggling into the forest, where they joined the Bielski brothers' camp, immigrated illegally to the "Negev" ship and exiled to Cyprus, arrived in Israel on May 14, 1948, was drafted into the Air Force and led supplies to the Negev and Eilat.
Ze'ev Singer Ze'ev was born in 1930 in the city of Kosice in Czechoslovakia. He was able to study for several years until the outbreak of World War II. In 1944, he and his younger brother moved to Auschwitz, where their mother and brother perished. Ze'ev survived the death camp when he was only thirteen and a half years old. After a year in Auschwitz he survived and immigrated to Israel. On the way to Eretz Israel, he spent about a year in the detention camp on Cyprus and arrived in Eretz Israel in 1947. Enlisted in the Palmach this year and reached the 3rd Battalion of the Yiftah Brigade. During the War of Independence he fought in the battalion in various battles.
Album: 31x22 cm. 20 leaves. Original designed binding. Very good condition.
