Large collection of approximately 160 photographs from the estate of Haganah member Amos Spiegel. Europe and Eretz-Israel, 1920s to 1960s.
Including:
Photographs of members of Kvutzat Schiller at the early stages of the kibbutz’s founding (a kibbutz on the western border of the Shephelah between Rehovot and Givat Brenner, established in 1927 by academically educated immigrants from Lviv and Galicia, members of the Gordonia movement).
Youth in a Hebrew youth movement in Poland.
Group photograph of Eastern European Jews in traditional dress in a hachsharah (pioneering training) group in Poland, ca. 1920s.
Members of the “Communications” and “Signals” units in the Haganah.
Photograph with a Shanah Tovah greeting from Eretz-Israel, 1935.
The Adloyada parade in Tel Aviv, 1935.
Graduation photograph of the Max Payne Vocational School for Boys – Histadrut of Hebrew Workers in Eretz-Israel, Class X, Tel Aviv, 1945.
Group photograph of the municipal kindergarten named after Smilansky.
Four class photographs of students at the “Borochov” state school in Givatayim.
Class photograph of students at the “Children of Workers B” school in Ramat Gan, 1953.
Class photograph of a student from the vocational school adjacent to the military industry, tenth year of the State of Israel, 1957.
Class photograph of a student from the “Hashmonaim” state school in Ramat Gan, Class VI, 1957.
Six group photographs of children in kindergartens in Eretz-Israel and Europe.
Photograph of Amos Spiegel and his counselor in “Maccabi HaTza’ir” uniform, 1937.
Photographs from a labor camp in Kibbutz Machanayim, 1940s.
Dozens of family photographs of Amos Spiegel and his relatives, starting from his youth; photographs of his family before immigrating to Eretz-Israel; Spiegel and friends during the War of Independence, in various cities across the country, engaged in pioneering activities, and more.
Amos Spiegel was born in Tel Aviv in 1928 to a family that had immigrated from Leipzig. After a time, his parents moved to live in Rehovot. He attended high school at the “Gymnasia” that opened on Menucha VeNachala Street (later known as De Shalit High School). After several years, he transferred to the Max Payne Vocational School in Tel Aviv. Later, he joined the Ayalon Institute and enlisted in the Haganah. As a graduate of a vocational school, he was assigned to serve in Ta’as (Military Industry), which at the time was producing weapons for the Haganah. During those years, he worked at the Ayalon Institute – an underground munitions factory and Haganah weapons cache located on the “Givat HaKibbutzim” site, on the northern outskirts of Rehovot. The Institute operated as a covert underground facility producing 9×19mm Parabellum bullets for the Sten submachine gun, beneath a civilian structure, completely hidden from the British authorities and unknown even to the civilians above.
Photographs in various sizes: 30×24 cm, 9×14 cm, 7×9 cm, and small passport-sized photos 7×4 cm.
Overall very good condition.
