Cyprus - a decoration pin - engraving on a coin. rare. The shape of the Cyprus detention camp, the barbed wire fence, the watchtower and the residential hut. The head of Cyprus 47 is engraved. Work done on the Piastre coin [on the back the original mint coin: CYPRUS one piastre 1934].
In the detention camps in Cyprus established by the British government from August 1946 to November 1949, to detain the immigrants arriving in Eretz Israel, there was a lively cultural activity .
One of the projects, art workshops were opened by artists Zeev Ben-Zvi and Naftali Bezem. Ben-Zvi set up a sculpture workshop in a wooden hut hold over 50 amateur sculptures that created portraits in plaster and clay, as well as copper plaster. In Ben-Zvi's view, the sculpture was intended to express the experience of the Holocaust and the uprooting. Bezem and his students created an album of prints with a reflection of camp life. In addition, spontaneous work was done by the detainees, such as the one before us. Diam: 2.2 cm. Very fine condition.
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